It is hard to guess what a Akodon spegazzinii weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Akodon spegazzinii (Akodon spegazzinii) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Akodon spegazzinii is from the family Muridae (genus: Akodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Akodon spegazzinii, also known as Spegazzini’s akodont or Spegazzini’s grass mouse, is a rodent in the genus Akodon found in northwestern Argentina. It occurs in grassland and forest at 400 to 3,500 m (1,300 to 11,500 ft) above sea level. After the species was first named in 1897, several other names were given to various populations now included in A. spegazzinii. They are now all recognized as part of a single, widespread and variable species. Akodon spegazzinii is related to Akodon boliviensis and other members of the A. boliviensis species group. It reproduces year-round. Because it is widely distributed and common, Akodon spegazzinii is listed as “least concern” on the IUCN Red List.Akodon spegazzinii is medium in size for the A. boliviensis species group. The coloration of its upperparts varies considerably, from light to dark and from yellowish to reddish brown. The underparts are yellow-brown to gray. The eyes are surrounded by a ring of yellow fur. The skull contains an hourglass-shaped interorbital region (between the eyes) and various features of the skull distinguish the species from its close allies. Head and body length is 93 to 196 mm (3.7 to 7.7 in) and body mass is 13.0 to 38.0 g (0.46 to 1.34 oz). Its karyotype has 2n = 40 and FN = 40.
Animals of the same family as a Akodon spegazzinii
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Dusky hopping mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a weight of 92 grams
- Pleasant gerbil with a weight of 13 grams
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Magdalena rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat with a weight of 93 grams
- Cabrera’s vole with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Akodon spegazzinii
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Akodon spegazzinii:
- Brush mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Western false pipistrelle bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Tailless fruit bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Common vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Narrow-headed slender opossum bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Akodon spegazzinii
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Akodon spegazzinii:
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ash-grey mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese mole shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Desert dormouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)