It is hard to guess what a Emilia’s gracile opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Emilia’s gracile opossum (Gracilinanus emiliae) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Emilia’s gracile opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Gracilinanus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.4 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.
Emilia’s gracile opossum (Gracilinanus emiliae) is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Surinam.
Animals of the same family as a Emilia’s gracile opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a weight of 351 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a weight of 765 grams
- Brazilian slender opossum with a weight of 38 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 119 grams
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 112 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Emilia’s gracile opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gracilinanus emiliae:
- Northern little yellow-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Reddish-gray musk shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Orange leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rendall’s serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Peninsular horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Emilia’s gracile opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Emilia’s gracile opossum:
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)