It is hard to guess what a Robert’s hocicudo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Robert’s hocicudo (Oxymycterus roberti) on average weights 83 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Robert’s hocicudo is from the family Muridae (genus: Oxymycterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10 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.
Robert’s hocicudo (Oxymycterus roberti) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil and Paraguay.
Animals of the same family as a Robert’s hocicudo
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Grey dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Ammodile with a weight of 50 grams
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Greater hamster-rat with 4 babies per litter
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Red tree vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Southern multimammate mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Chiapan climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Robert’s hocicudo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oxymycterus roberti:
- Inca Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Bare-backed rousette bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Oxymycterus hucucha bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Kobe mole bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Robert’s hocicudo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Robert’s hocicudo:
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Handley’s slender opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow jumping mouse with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)