It is hard to guess what a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Narrow-striped marsupial shrew (Phascolosorex dorsalis) on average weights 124 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Narrow-striped marsupial shrew is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Phascolosorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.3 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Narrow-striped marsupial shrews have 3 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 narrow-striped dasyure or narrow-striped marsupial shrew (Phascolosorex dorsalis) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale with a weight of 43 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- New Guinean planigale with a weight of 14 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phascolosorex dorsalis:
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Northern palm squirrel bringing 102 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Malayan field rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Unexpected cotton rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Coruro bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Harris’s antelope squirrel bringing 127 grams to the scale
- Highland streaked tenrec bringing 102 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Narrow-striped marsupial shrew:
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Himalayan field rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-furred dasyure with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew: