How big does a Smoky pocket gopher get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Smoky pocket gopher (Pappogeomys neglectus) reaches an average size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 302 grams (0.67 lbs). A Smoky pocket gopher has 1 babies at once. The Smoky pocket gopher (genus: Pappogeomys) is a member of the family Geomyidae.
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 smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico (Querétaro). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Molecular phylogenetics has revealed that this species also includes the animals formerly separated as C. gymnurus, C. neglectus, C. tylorhinus and C. zinseri.
Animals of the same family as a Smoky pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Southeastern pocket gopher with 1 babies per litter
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with 1 babies per litter
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with 1 babies per litter
- Big pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
Animals with the same size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smoky pocket gopher:
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brooke’s squirrel with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Island mouse with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Smoky pocket gopher:
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Red forest duiker
- Royal antelope
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- South Andean deer
- Townsend’s big-eared bat
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Barasingha
- Admiralty flying fox
- Tufted capuchin
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pappogeomys neglectus:
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel bringing 307 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Zanj sun squirrel bringing 347 grams to the scale
- Red-legged sun squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Southern mountain cavy bringing 261 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale