It is hard to guess what a Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse (Liomys salvini) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Liomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Salvin’s 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.
Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys salvini) is a small to medium-sized rodent in the family Heteromyidae. 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 Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Liomys salvini:
- Miller’s striped mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Large myotis bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Rock dormouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Flat-faced fruit-eating bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Dorothy’s slender opossum bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Western mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Guajira mouse opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Silver mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Salvin’s 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 Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse:
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aberdare mole shrew with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-footed vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse: