It is hard to guess what a Puna mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Puna mouse (Punomys lemminus) on average weights 84 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Puna mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Punomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.4 meter (4′ 8″). Usually, Puna mouses have 1 babies per litter.
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 puna mouse (Punomys lemminus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southern Peru, where it is found in puna habitat at elevations of 4400 to 4900 m in the Cordillera Occidental.
Animals of the same family as a Puna mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Highveld gerbil with a weight of 89 grams
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Highveld gerbil with a weight of 89 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Puna mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Punomys lemminus:
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Cauca climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- White-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed chipmunk bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Dressy Oldfield mouse bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Forest Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Puna mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Puna mouse: