It is hard to guess what a New Holland mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The New Holland mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″). On average, New Holland mouses can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 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 New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It was first described by George Waterhouse in 1843. It vanished from view for over a century before its rediscovery in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park north of Sydney in 1967. It is found only in south east Australia, within the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Tasmania.
Animals of the same family as a New Holland mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Winkelmann’s mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Jalapan pine vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- New Guinean rat with a weight of 133 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis with a weight of 73 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a New Holland mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys novaehollandiae:
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Upemba shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Intermediate horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Holland mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Holland mouse:
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eurasian water shrew with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a New Holland mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a New Holland mouse: