It is hard to guess what a Mexican volcano mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican volcano mouse (Neotomodon alstoni) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Mexican volcano mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotomodon). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Mexican volcano mouses can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The Mexican volcano mouse (Neotomodon alstoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to high elevation areas of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican volcano mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Creeping vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 612 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per litter
- Taiwan field mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican volcano mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotomodon alstoni:
- Moss-forest rat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Red-nosed mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel bringing 36 grams to the scale
- El Dorado grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Mexican water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican volcano mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican volcano mouse:
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican volcano mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Mexican volcano mouse: