It is hard to guess what a Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew (Cryptotis goodwini) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Cryptotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 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.
Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew (Cryptotis goodwini) is a species of mammal in the shrew family, Soricidae. Body length and size of adults average 9.49 cm and 7.0 grams respectively making it a relatively larger shew. What distinguishes this from other shrews are its long claws.
Animals of the same family as a Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Eurasian least shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Laxmann’s shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Hero shrew with a weight of 91 grams
- Crowned shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Tundra shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cryptotis goodwini:
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chestnut long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- African pygmy mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Coelops frithi bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Arctic shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Big-eared horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Greater bamboo bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew:
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese shrew mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little collared fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)