How big does a Desert dormouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) reaches an average size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 17 grams (0.04 lbs). A Desert dormouse has 6 babies at once. The Desert dormouse (genus: Selevinia) is a member of the family Myoxidae.
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 desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family, Gliridae. This species was formerly placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but it is now considered to be a dormouse, monotypic within the genus Selevinia.It is endemic to Kazakhstan.
Animals of the same family as a Desert dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Graphiurus hueti with 3 babies per litter
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Spectacled dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Desert dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert dormouse:
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- San Diego pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Desert dormouse:
- Cinereus shrew
- Philippine warty pig
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- Mindoro black rat
- Julia Creek dunnart
- Common shrew
- Flat-haired mouse
- Bronze quoll
- Gray leaf-eared mouse
- New Guinean quoll
Animals with the same weight as a Desert dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Selevinia betpakdalaensis:
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Oldfield mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Steppe lemming bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Pygmy fruit bat bringing 15 grams to the scale