It is hard to guess what a Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse (Microhydromys richardsoni) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Microhydromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.1 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 northern groove-toothed shrew mouse (Microhydromys richardsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Banana climbing mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dolorous grass mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Tarabundí vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Diminutive woodrat with a weight of 80 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microhydromys richardsoni:
- Hairy big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dollman’s tree mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little white-shouldered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Acuminate horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Peters’s mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Southern short-tailed shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Yellow serotine bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse:
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Marsh shrew with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)