It is hard to guess what a One-striped opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult One-striped opossum (Monodelphis unistriata) on average weights 55 grams (0.12 lbs).
The One-striped opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Monodelphis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.7 cm (0′ 6″).
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 one-striped opossum (Monodelphis unistriata) is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Argentina and Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a One-striped opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
- Delicate slender opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a weight of 41 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 107 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- White-bellied slender opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a One-striped opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monodelphis unistriata:
- Uinta chipmunk bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed mole bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- East African little collared fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s bonneted bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Andean leaf-eared mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a One-striped opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as One-striped opossum:
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coruro with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)