How big does a Echigo mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Echigo mole (Mogera etigo) reaches an average size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 163 grams (0.36 lbs). On average, Echigo moles have offspring about 1 times per year. The Echigo mole (genus: Mogera) is a member of the family Talpidae.
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 Echigo mole (Mogera etigo) is an endangered species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan, being found only on the Echigo plain, Niigata prefecture.
Animals of the same family as a Echigo mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per litter
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern mole with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Echigo mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Echigo mole:
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Collared tuco-tuco with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ricefield rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Madagascan fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Harpy fruit bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Echigo mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mogera etigo:
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Plateau pika bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Talas tuco-tuco bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Buller’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Ruddy treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Palawan treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale