It is hard to guess what a Mediterranean water shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mediterranean water shrew (Neomys anomalus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Mediterranean water shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Neomys). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Mediterranean water shrews have 7 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 Mediterranean, Southern or Miller’s water shrew (Neomys anomalus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
Animals of the same family as a Mediterranean water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Dwarf shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crosse’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Upemba shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Marsh shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Common shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Negros shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Reddish-gray musk shrew with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mediterranean water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neomys anomalus:
- Myosorex varius bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Toltec fruit-eating bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Bini free-tailed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Allen’s big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mediterranean water shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mediterranean water shrew:
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hazel dormouse with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mediterranean water shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Mediterranean water shrew:
- Piute ground squirrel
- Southern ningaui
- Yellow steppe lemming
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Washington ground squirrel
- Lesser bandicoot rat
- Little ground squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mediterranean water shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mediterranean water shrew:
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Laxmann’s shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Long-tailed giant rat with an average maximal age of 2 years