It is hard to guess what a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pusilla) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Common fat-tailed mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Thylamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 common fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pusillus) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay in chaco and Andean foothill habitats. Its head-and-body length is about 75 to 120 (mean 94.3) mm, and its tail length is about 90 to 134 (mean 103.6) mm. Its dorsal fur is brownish gray, and its ventral fur is yellowish to white. The legs and cheeks are the same color as the ventral surface. Its tail is sharply bicolored (divided into two colors). A ring of faintly darker fur surrounds each eye. Its tail often lacks fat deposits, but does not always.
Animals of the same family as a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
- Dusky slender opossum with a weight of 46 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum with a weight of 328 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylamys pusilla:
- Brush mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Aberdare mole shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Nigerian shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Forrest’s mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common fat-tailed mouse opossum:
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)