It is hard to guess what a Guajira mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Guajira mouse opossum (Marmosa xerophila) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Guajira mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.1 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Guajira mouse opossum (Marmosa xerophila) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Guajira mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a weight of 26 grams
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
- White-bellied slender opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Big-eared opossum bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Guajira mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa xerophila:
- Hylaeamys oniscus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Alexander’s bush squirrel bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Panamint chipmunk bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Greater broad-nosed bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Melanomys robustulus bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Oecomys concolor bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Northern water rat bringing 54 grams to the scale
- European snow vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Guajira mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Guajira mouse opossum:
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)