It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed hopping mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed hopping mouse (Notomys longicaudatus) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Long-tailed hopping mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Notomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.8 cm (0′ 6″).
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 long-tailed hopping mouse (Notomys longicaudatus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae. It was found only in Australia. It is known from a handful of specimens, the last of which was collected in 1901 or possibly 1902. It is presumed to have become extinct within a few decades from then – possibly several decades in view of a skull fragment found in an owl pellet in 1977. The cause of extinction is unknown, but may be a variety of factors including predation and habitat alteration. Little is known of its biology other than that it dug burrows in stiff clay soils. It was less a pest to humans than other hopping mice, although it would eat raisins. The mouse was mainly gray in colour with small pink ears and big eyes with a long hairy pink tail about two inches longer than its own body. It was first described by John Gould on the basis of specimens sent to him from Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed hopping mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Silent grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Bunker’s woodrat with a weight of 375 grams
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a weight of 194 grams
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi with a weight of 58 grams
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Slender rat with a weight of 109 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed hopping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Notomys longicaudatus:
- Rough-haired golden mole bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Oldfield white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 110 grams to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Damaraland mole-rat bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Persian jird bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Summit rat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed hopping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-tailed hopping mouse:
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Goldman’s woodrat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shining thicket rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)