How big does a Japanese water shrew get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala) reaches an average size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 35 grams (0.08 lbs). The Japanese water shrew (genus: Chimarrogale) is a member of the family Soricidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephalus), also called the flat-headed water shrew, is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Japan.
Animals of the same family as a Japanese water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Chestnut-bellied shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Reddish-gray musk shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Horsfield’s shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crosse’s shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Smoky white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Japanese water shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Japanese water shrew:
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern three-striped opossum with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-tailed gymnure with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Japanese water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chimarrogale platycephala:
- Fawn hopping mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Jalapan pine vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Short-palated fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Little red kaluta bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 35 grams to the scale