How big does a Cozumel harvest mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Cozumel harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys spectabilis) reaches an average size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 20 grams (0.04 lbs). The Cozumel harvest mouse (genus: Reithrodontomys) 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 Cozumel harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula. It is nocturnal and semiareboreal, and lives in dense secondary forest and forest edge habitats. Its population is small, fluctuating and patchily distributed. The species is threatened by predation from feral cats and dogs and introduced boa constrictors, by competition with introduced nonnative rats and mice, and by habitat disturbances caused by hurricanes and floods which periodically strike the island.
Animals of the same family as a Cozumel harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Little wood mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- San Martín Island woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Brush mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Plains harvest mouse with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Cozumel harvest mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cozumel harvest mouse:
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-footed vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Cozumel harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys spectabilis:
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Niobe’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Woodland dormouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Juliana’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Moon forest shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- House mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale