It is hard to guess what a One-toothed shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult One-toothed shrew mouse (Mayermys ellermani) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The One-toothed shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mayermys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 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 one-toothed shew mouse (Pseudohydromys ellermani) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, at elevations from 1200 to 3000 m. It is most closely related to Pseudohydromys germani.
Animals of the same family as a One-toothed shrew mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Tarabundí vole with a weight of 36 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same weight as a One-toothed shrew mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mayermys ellermani:
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Myotis vivesi bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Southern grasshopper mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Carriker’s round-eared bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a One-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 One-toothed shrew mouse:
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mediterranean water shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)