It is hard to guess what a Mottled-tailed shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys fuscus) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Mottled-tailed shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudohydromys). 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:
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Yellow-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 59 grams
- Large bamboo rat bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Woolly giant rat with a weight of 116 grams
- Southern multimammate mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Fat mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Jico deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 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 Pseudohydromys fuscus:
- Toltec fruit-eating bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Desert dormouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Cozumel harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Little yellow-shouldered bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Brown fruit-eating bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Zenker’s fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Notiomys bringing 21 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:
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern bog lemming with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cyclops roundleaf bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)