It is hard to guess what a Eastern shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys murinus) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Eastern shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudohydromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 eastern shew mouse (Pseudohydromys murinus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern shrew mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Western chestnut mouse with a weight of 70 grams
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Stirton’s deer mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern shrew mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudohydromys murinus:
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Niobe’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Western bent-winged bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Neacomys spinosus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Telefomin roundleaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern shrew mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern shrew mouse:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe lemming with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Swift fruit bat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cactus mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)