It is hard to guess what a Eva’s desert mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eva’s desert mouse (Peromyscus eva) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Eva’s desert mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Peromyscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.1 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.
Eva’s desert mouse (Peromyscus eva) is a species of rodent in the genus Peromyscus of the family Cricetidae found only in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Eva’s desert mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Andean swamp rat with a weight of 64 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Bryant’s woodrat with a weight of 182 grams
- Alpine pine vole with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eva’s desert mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peromyscus eva:
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Tufted pygmy squirrel bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Bonda mastiff bat bringing 17 grams to the scale