It is hard to guess what a Mexican spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican spiny pocket mouse (Liomys irroratus) on average weights 49 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Liomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Mexican spiny pocket mouses have 4 babies per litter.
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 Mexican spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys irroratus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is native to Mexico and Texas in the United States where it is found in dry, scrubby habitats. The IUCN has assessed it as being of “least concern”. It was formerly placed in the genus Liomys, which is now recognized to be paraphyletic and has been subsumed into Heteromys.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Giant kangaroo rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 74 grams
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Agile kangaroo rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Liomys irroratus:
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Melanomys zunigae bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys chapmani bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Pale-faced bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Southern marsupial mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Rufous elephant shrew bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican spiny pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican spiny pocket mouse:
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Mexican spiny pocket mouse: