It is hard to guess what a Linnaeus’s mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Linnaeus’s mouse opossum (Marmosa murina) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Linnaeus’s mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Linnaeus’s mouse opossums can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 7.
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.
Linnaeus’s mouse opossum (Marmosa murina), also known as the common or murine mouse opossum, is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae.
Animals of the same family as a Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Guajira mouse opossum with a weight of 46 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a weight of 351 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- One-striped opossum with a weight of 55 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Big-eared opossum bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Dusky slender opossum with a weight of 46 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa murina:
- Pale spear-nosed bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked dunnart bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Rudd’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Djoongari bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Day’s grass mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Halmahera blossom bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- White-throated grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Linnaeus’s mouse opossum:
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dollman’s melomys with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed mole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Linnaeus’s mouse opossum: