It is hard to guess what a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Panamanian spiny pocket mouse (Liomys adspersus) on average weights 51 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Panamanian spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Liomys). They can live for up to 1.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Panamanian spiny pocket mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 Panamanian spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys adspersus), also known as Peter’s spiny pocket mouse, is a species of heteromyid rodent endemic to Panama. It is very closely related to Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse, and has been placed in the same species group by some authors. It was formerly placed in the genus Liomys, which is now recognized to be paraphyletic and has been subsumed into Heteromys.
Animals of the same family as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 68 grams
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with a weight of 108 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Liomys adspersus:
- Great fruit-eating bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Sambirano mouse lemur bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Panamanian 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 Panamanian spiny pocket mouse:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-haired water rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Florida mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panamint chipmunk with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Delicate slender opossum with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tarabundí vole with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse:
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Cape gerbil
- Snowshoe hare
- Red rock rat
- Fisher (animal)
- Greater cane rat
- Gray fox
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse:
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Arctic shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years