It is hard to guess what a Chinese mole shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Chinese mole shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Anourosorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Chinese mole shrews have 2 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 Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes) is one of four species of Asian mole shrew in the genus Anourosorex.Despite the name, it is found not only in China but also in northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Like all other species of the genus Anourosorex, the Chinese mole shrew is fossorial, and is found in montane forests.In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control reported this species can carry a version of the hantavirus which is genetically distinct from rodent hantavirus and new to science.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese mole shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Dwarf shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Taiga shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Blackish small-eared shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Jouvenet’s shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Eurasian least shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese mole shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Anourosorex squamipes:
- Parantechinus bilarni bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Great Basin pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Neacomys spinosus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Ghost-faced bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chinese mole shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chinese mole shrew:
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chinese mole shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Chinese mole shrew: