It is hard to guess what a Japanese mountain mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Japanese mountain mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Euroscaptor). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Japanese mountain moles can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. Although the Japanese mountain mole is currently classified in the genus Euroscaptor, a study published by the American Society of Mammalogists suggests that they do not truly belong to this genus because of earlier evolutionary divergence from other Euroscaptor species.In terms of the mole’s Morphology,recently the taxonomic position of the Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) was reassessed and this was based on its external and skeletal morphologies. It was found that the muzzle of the moles showed a unique groove on the ventral side of it and it separates it from the rest of the moles in the family. The study was conducted recently in 2016.[1][2]
Animals of the same family as a Japanese mountain mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Hairy-tailed mole with a weight of 51 grams
- Broad-footed mole with a weight of 61 grams
- Japanese shrew mole with a weight of 18 grams
- American shrew mole with a weight of 9 grams
- Coast mole with a weight of 61 grams
- Japanese mole with a weight of 82 grams
- Sado mole with a weight of 131 grams
- Chinese shrew mole with a weight of 16 grams
- Small Japanese mole with a weight of 65 grams
- European mole with a weight of 86 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Japanese mountain mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Euroscaptor mizura:
- Agile antechinus bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Steppe field mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Narrow-headed slender opossum bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Wimmer’s shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys microtis bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Japanese mountain mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Japanese mountain mole:
- Cactus mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Japanese mountain mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Japanese mountain mole:
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Djoongari
- Large vlei rat
- Prairie vole
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse
- Mazama pocket gopher
- Western red-backed vole
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Arctic lemming
- Royle’s pika
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Japanese mountain mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Japanese mountain mole:
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Water opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years