It is hard to guess what a Painted spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Painted spiny pocket mouse (Liomys pictus) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Painted spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Liomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Painted spiny pocket mouses have 3 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 painted spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys pictus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Mexico and the northern tip of Guatemala. 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 Painted spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Plains pocket mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a weight of 37 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a weight of 56 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Painted spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Liomys pictus:
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Lesser spear-nosed bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mexican deer mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Delectable soft-furred mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Mesquite mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Common rock rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Painted 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 Painted spiny pocket mouse:
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Painted spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Painted spiny pocket mouse: