It is hard to guess what a Merriam’s pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Merriam’s pocket gopher (Cratogeomys merriami) on average weights 419 grams (0.92 lbs).
The Merriam’s pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Cratogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.2 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Merriam’s pocket gophers have 1 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.
Merriam’s pocket gopher (Cratogeomys merriami) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found in the area of the Valley of Mexico and the Valley of Toluca at elevations from 1800 to 4000 m. Its favored habitats are the Zacatonal grassland and temperate pine-oak woodlands, as well as farmland and rangeland. Its karyotype has 2n = 36 and FN = 68.Until 2005, what are now considered the separate species C. fulvescens and C. perotensis were included within this taxon. They were split off due to clear molecular, chromosomal and morphological differences. All three species are part of the C. castanops species group.The species is named after American mammalogist Clinton Hart Merriam.Although its distribution is patchy, it is not thought to be threatened.
Animals of the same family as a Merriam’s pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher with a weight of 81 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher with a weight of 93 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Buller’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Merriam’s pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cratogeomys merriami:
- Bower’s white-toothed rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Japen rat bringing 380 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered triok bringing 370 grams to the scale
- Greater guinea pig bringing 460 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf lemur bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Mahogany glider bringing 361 grams to the scale
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat bringing 489 grams to the scale
- Southern African hedgehog bringing 337 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Merriam’s pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Merriam’s pocket gopher: