It is hard to guess what a Mottled-tailed shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (Neohydromys fuscus) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Mottled-tailed shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Neohydromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 mottled-tailed shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys fuscus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Mottled-tailed shrew mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Mahomet mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Akodon sylvanus with a weight of 39 grams
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Oligoryzomys arenalis with a weight of 25 grams
- El Dorado grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 117 grams
- Mexican deer mouse with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mottled-tailed shrew mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neohydromys fuscus:
- Colombian forest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Pocketed free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Pygmy fruit bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys flavescens bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Tent-making bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mottled-tailed shrew mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mottled-tailed shrew mouse:
- Sulawesi rousette with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern gracile opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-eared flying mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)