How big does a New Holland mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) reaches an average size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 16 grams (0.04 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 1 grams (0 lbs). Talking about reproduction, New Holland mouses have 4 babies about 4 times per year. The New Holland mouse (genus: Pseudomys) 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 New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It was first described by George Waterhouse in 1843. It vanished from view for over a century before its rediscovery in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park north of Sydney in 1967. It is found only in south east Australia, within the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Tasmania.
Animals of the same family as a New Holland mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oecomys concolor with 1 babies per litter
- Ammodile with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Dusky-footed woodrat with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Melanomys zunigae with a weight of 53 grams
- Andean big-eared mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
Animals with the same size as a New Holland mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Holland mouse:
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a New Holland mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a New Holland mouse:
- Dhole
- Dark bolo mouse
- Gray-tailed vole
- Bank vole
- Hairy-tailed mole
- Lesser capybara
- White-nosed coati
- Indian desert jird
- Sody’s tree rat
- Parantechinus bilarni
Animals with the same weight as a New Holland mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys novaehollandiae:
- Large-eared slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Little big-eyed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- White-collared fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- New Guinean planigale bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Oldfield mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Telefomin roundleaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pond bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale