It is hard to guess what a Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus regina) on average weights 119 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Micoureus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
The bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa regina) or short-furred woolly mouse opossum is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It is found in tropical rainforest in the westernmost portion of the Amazon Basin and the eastern foothills of the Andes, at elevations up to 1634 m. It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.
Animals of the same family as a Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum with a weight of 324 grams
- Virginia opossum bringing 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) to the scale
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a weight of 61 grams
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micoureus regina:
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Northern palm squirrel bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Fat sand rat bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Spotted ground squirrel bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Northern pika bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum:
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-footed tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Himalayan field rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Microcebus coquereli with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mentawai squirrel with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinea waterside rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Four-toed elephant shrew with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)