It is hard to guess what a Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys nelsoni) on average weights 67 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Heteromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.8 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Mexico and Guatemala. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 268 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Heteromys nelsoni:
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Siberian brown lemming bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Western chestnut mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Common mole-rat bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Maritime striped squirrel bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Red mouse opossum bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Cape short-eared gerbil bringing 54 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse:
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-eared chipmunk with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)