It is hard to guess what a Desert mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert mouse (Pseudomys desertor) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Desert mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.8 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Desert mouses have 3 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 mouse (Pseudomys desertor), also known as the brown desert mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Australia. The first desert mouse specimen was collected by Australian zoologist Gerard Krefft on the Blandowski Expedition in 1856-57, between Gol Gol Creek and the Darling River.
Animals of the same family as a Desert mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Argentine hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a weight of 19 grams
- Blick’s grass rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Brown deer mouse with a weight of 66 grams
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Delectable soft-furred mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with a weight of 90 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys desertor:
- Fat mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Himalayan water shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- San José Island kangaroo rat bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Dark fruit-eating bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert mouse:
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western shrew mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert dormouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Desert mouse: