It is hard to guess what a Red mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red mouse opossum (Marmosa rubra) on average weights 63 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Red mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 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 red mouse opossum (Marmosa rubra) is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes eastern Ecuador and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Red mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Big-eared opossum bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Virginia opossum bringing 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) to the scale
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a weight of 61 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a weight of 765 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa rubra:
- Angolan rousette bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Nimba otter shrew bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Ruschi’s rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Senegal gerbil bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Target rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale