It is hard to guess what a Lined pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lined pocket mouse (Chaetodipus lineatus) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Lined pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.3 cm (0′ 3″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The lined pocket mouse (Chaetodipus lineatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. This pocket mouse is endemic to a small area of central Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Lined pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Plains pocket mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with a weight of 106 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 65 grams
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 87 grams
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lined pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus lineatus:
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Brush mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Golden mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Drylands vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lined pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lined pocket mouse:
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Malagasy serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-clawed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)