It is hard to guess what a Brazilian shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Brazilian shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Blarinomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Brazilian shrew mouses have 1 babies per litter.
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 Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps), also known as the blarinine akodont, is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys. Phylogenetic analysis suggest that there are two clear geographical clades, a northeastern and southeastern.
Animals of the same family as a Brazilian shrew mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ungava collared lemming with a weight of 57 grams
- Père David’s vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Cutch rat with 5 babies per litter
- Ruwenzori thicket rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Cursor grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Microryzomys minutus with a weight of 13 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Brazilian shrew mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Blarinomys breviceps:
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Golden spiny mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Tarabundí vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- California mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Black mastiff bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Naked mole-rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Brazilian shrew mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brazilian shrew mouse:
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Monito del monte with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brazilian shrew mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Brazilian shrew mouse: