It is hard to guess what a Mexican mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana) on average weights 49 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Mexican mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). They can live for up to 7 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Mexican mouse opossums have 11 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 Mexican mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana) is a species of Central American opossum in the family Didelphidae.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Red mouse opossum with a weight of 63 grams
- Emilia’s gracile opossum with a weight of 7 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared opossum bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a weight of 765 grams
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a weight of 365 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa mexicana:
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Red-nosed mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Jico deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Chestnut tree mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Togo mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican mouse opossum:
- New Caledonia flying fox with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Australian swamp rat with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (11) as a Mexican mouse opossum:
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mexican mouse opossum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mexican mouse opossum:
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Stoat with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Lesser grison with an average maximal age of 7.25 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
- American pika with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Arctic hare with an average maximal age of 7 years