How big does a Desert mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Desert mouse (Pseudomys desertor) reaches an average size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 37 grams (0.08 lbs). A Desert mouse has 3 babies at once. The Desert 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 desert mouse (Pseudomys desertor), also known as the brown desert mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Australia. The first desert mouse specimen was collected by Australian zoologist Gerard Krefft on the Blandowski Expedition in 1856-57, between Gol Gol Creek and the Darling River.
Animals of the same family as a Desert mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Robert’s snow vole with 1 babies per litter
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Biting chinchilla mouse with a weight of 82 grams
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 62 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- King rat (animal) with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same size as a Desert mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert mouse:
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Emilia’s gracile opossum with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican shrew with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aberdare mole shrew with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Desert mouse:
- Japanese mole
- Broad-footed mole
- Oldfield mouse
- Common punaré
- Hog badger
- Rock pocket mouse
- Desert hedgehog
- Horsfield’s shrew
- Savanna path shrew
- Hairy-footed gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Desert mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys desertor:
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Silent grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Soft grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale