How big does a Desert pocket gopher get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) reaches an average size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 206 grams (0.45 lbs). A Desert pocket gopher has 4 babies at once. The Desert pocket gopher (genus: Geomys) 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 desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico and in Texas and New Mexico in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Desert pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Southern pocket gopher with 2 babies per litter
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Desert pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert pocket gopher:
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red rock rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bramble Cay melomys with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Desert pocket gopher:
- White-tailed jackrabbit
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse
- Marsh rice rat
- Typical striped grass mouse
- Bush rat
- Pousargues’s mongoose
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Greater white-toothed shrew
- Tien Shan birch mouse
- New England cottontail
Animals with the same weight as a Desert pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geomys arenarius:
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Dusky-footed woodrat bringing 219 grams to the scale
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Moon-toothed degu bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Holochilus chacarius bringing 204 grams to the scale
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
- Large-eared pika bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Salta tuco-tuco bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Smith’s bush squirrel bringing 222 grams to the scale