It is hard to guess what a Crested-tailed deer mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Crested-tailed deer mouse (Habromys lophurus) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Crested-tailed deer mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Habromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 crested-tailed deer mouse (Habromys lophurus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Crested-tailed deer mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
- Western white-eared giant rat with a weight of 932 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Delany’s mouse with a weight of 4 grams
- Stein’s rat with a weight of 151 grams
- Eremoryzomys with a weight of 60 grams
- Round-tailed muskrat with a weight of 265 grams
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat with a weight of 397 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Crested-tailed deer mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Habromys lophurus:
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Ecuadorian grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Golden spiny mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater broad-nosed bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Dark fruit-eating bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Least chipmunk bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Spanish mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale