How big does a Mediterranean water shrew get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mediterranean water shrew (Neomys anomalus) reaches an average size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 2 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 13 grams (0.03 lbs). A Mediterranean water shrew has 7 babies at once. The Mediterranean water shrew (genus: Neomys) 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 Mediterranean, Southern or Miller’s water shrew (Neomys anomalus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
Animals of the same family as a Mediterranean water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Least dwarf shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dsinezumi shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Mediterranean water shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mediterranean water shrew:
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodland jumping mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mediterranean water shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Mediterranean water shrew:
- Sakhalin vole
- Long-tailed planigale
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel
- Little long-tailed dunnart
- Swamp antechinus
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- Southern ningaui
- Pallas’s pika
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Vinogradov’s jird
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mediterranean water shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mediterranean water shrew:
- Eastern harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.17 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mediterranean water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neomys anomalus:
- Parti-coloured bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- California leaf-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Bolam’s mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pond bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- African black shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Brown mastiff bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Smoky white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat bringing 11 grams to the scale