It has a slender body and pointed muzzle, with dark-brown back fur finely speckled with buffy brown. It lives in humid forests of Madagascar.
It has a slender body, a pointed muzzle, and finely speckled dark-brown fur on the back.
It inhabits humid lowland and montane forests.
It eats orthopterans, beetles, hymenopterans, earthworms, arachnids and amphipods.
Two adult females collected in Andringitra in late 1993 each carried two embryos, one on either side.
The belly is grey-brown with a buffy-brown wash. The tail is dark grey-brown above and slightly paler grey below, with scales visible beneath short hairs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.