It is hard to guess what a Grayish mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Grayish mouse opossum (Marmosa canescens) on average weights 48 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Grayish mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 48.9 cm (1′ 8″). Usually, Grayish mouse opossums have 8 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 grayish mouse opossum (Tlacuatzin canescens) is a species of opossum endemic to Mexico. It is the sole species in the genus Tlacuatzin.
Animals of the same family as a Grayish mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a weight of 41 grams
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum with a weight of 324 grams
- Delicate slender opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a weight of 351 grams
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 52 grams
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a weight of 32 grams
- White-eared opossum bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Northern red-sided opossum with a weight of 79 grams
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a weight of 132 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Grayish mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa canescens:
- Alston’s cotton rat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Single-striped grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Naked mole-rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Grayish mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Grayish mouse opossum: