It is hard to guess what a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pusillus) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Common fat-tailed mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Thylamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 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.
The common fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pusillus) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay in chaco and Andean foothill habitats. Its head-and-body length is about 75 to 120 (mean 94.3) mm, and its tail length is about 90 to 134 (mean 103.6) mm. Its dorsal fur is brownish gray, and its ventral fur is yellowish to white. The legs and cheeks are the same color as the ventral surface. Its tail is sharply bicolored (divided into two colors). A ring of faintly darker fur surrounds each eye. Its tail often lacks fat deposits, but does not always.
Animals of the same family as a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Virginia opossum bringing 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a weight of 114 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Panama slender opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a weight of 61 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylamys pusillus:
- Puno grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Balochistan gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Black mastiff bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common fat-tailed mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common fat-tailed mouse opossum:
- Desert dormouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-footed vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Canyon mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland thicket rat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)