How big does a Mexican volcano mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mexican volcano mouse (Neotomodon alstoni) reaches an average size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 44 grams (0.1 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 3 grams (0.01 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Mexican volcano mouses have 3 babies about 2 times per year. The Mexican volcano mouse (genus: Neotomodon) is a member of the family Muridae.
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 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-tailed vole with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Splendid climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Melanomys robustulus with a weight of 53 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 100 grams
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Middendorf’s vole with 5 babies per litter
- Nelson’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- BolaƱos woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
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:
- Florida mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern gracile opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stirton’s deer mouse with a size of 10.1 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:
- Fisher (animal)
- Peters’s mouse
- Crosse’s shrew
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Lesser hamster-rat
- North American beaver
- Lesser dwarf shrew
- Desert warthog
- Japanese mountain mole
- Fat-tailed gerbil
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:
- Pen-tailed treeshrew bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Woodland thicket rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Social vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale