It is hard to guess what a Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys velutinus) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Thylamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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 dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys velutinus), also known as the velvety fat-tailed opossum is an opossum species from South America. It is endemic to Brazil, where it is found in cerrado and caatinga habitats. Its head-and-body length is about 141-212 (average 173.3) mm, and its tail length is about 73-85 (average 78) mm. Its diet is 44% arthropods; 75% of its diet consists of animals and animal products. Its ventral fur is entirely gray-based. Its hind foot is less than 14 mm, which is short for the genus.
Animals of the same family as a Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- One-striped opossum with a weight of 55 grams
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a weight of 114 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum with a weight of 258 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylamys velutinus:
- Chinese mole shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Ningbing false antechinus bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Savanna swamp shrew bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Small-toothed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Chinese shrew mole bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Tonatia carrikeri bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dwarf 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 Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum:
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least chipmunk with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)