It is hard to guess what a Desert dormouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Desert dormouse is from the family Myoxidae (genus: Selevinia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Desert dormouses have 6 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 desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family, Gliridae. This species was formerly placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but it is now considered to be a dormouse, monotypic within the genus Selevinia.It is endemic to Kazakhstan.
Animals of the same family as a Desert dormouse
We found other animals of the Myoxidae family:
- Rock dormouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Spectacled dormouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Forest dormouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Asian garden dormouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Garden dormouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per litter
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per litter
- Chinese dormouse with a weight of 31 grams
- Graphiurus hueti with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert dormouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Selevinia betpakdalaensis:
- Jamaican flower bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Rock pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert dormouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert dormouse:
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert dormouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Desert dormouse: