It is hard to guess what a Oaxacan pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oaxacan pocket gopher (Orthogeomys cuniculus) on average weights 499 grams (1.1 lbs).
The Oaxacan pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Orthogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 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 Oaxacan pocket gopher (Orthogeomys cuniculus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae.This rare pocket gopher species is endemic to Oaxaca state in southern Mexico, confined to a few localities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Animals of the same family as a Oaxacan pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oaxacan pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Orthogeomys cuniculus:
- European hamster bringing 429 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- JunÃn red squirrel bringing 482 grams to the scale
- Gray-backed sportive lemur bringing 506 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Insular flying fox bringing 560 grams to the scale
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Giant golden mole bringing 440 grams to the scale