It is hard to guess what a Delicate slender opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Delicate slender opossum (Marmosops parvidens) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Delicate slender opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.1 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Delicate slender opossums have 4 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 delicate slender opossum (Marmosops parvidens) is a small pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae that occurs in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and adjacent Venezuela and Brazil. Marmosops pinheiroi, Marmosops bishopi and Marmosops juninensis had long been considered to represent the same species, until parvidens and pinheiroi were found in sympatry in French Guiana. This species is found in moist primary tropical rainforest at elevations up to 2000 m. It is nocturnal and partially arboreal, and feeds on insects and fruit.
Animals of the same family as a Delicate slender opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a weight of 61 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Red mouse opossum with a weight of 63 grams
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a weight of 18 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Brazilian gracile opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Delicate slender opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosops parvidens:
- Mexican free-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Ozimops beccarii bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s bonneted bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Delicate slender opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Delicate slender opossum:
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Delicate slender opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Delicate slender opossum: