It is hard to guess what a San Joaquin pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult San Joaquin pocket mouse (Perognathus inornatus) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The San Joaquin pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Perognathus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). On average, San Joaquin pocket mouses can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The San Joaquin pocket mouse or Salinas pocket mouse (Perognathus inornatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to California in the United States where it lives in desert and semi-desert habitats.
Animals of the same family as a San Joaquin pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 74 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a weight of 56 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 73 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
Animals with the same weight as a San Joaquin pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus inornatus:
- Arizona pocket mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Moloney’s mimic bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Cave myotis bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Arctic shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Pygmy gerbil bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a San Joaquin pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as San Joaquin pocket mouse:
- Eurasian water shrew with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert dormouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malagasy serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a San Joaquin pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a San Joaquin pocket mouse: