It is hard to guess what a Scolomys melanops weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Scolomys melanops (Scolomys melanops) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Scolomys melanops is from the family Muridae (genus: Scolomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Scolomys melanops, also known as the short-nosed scolomys, South American spiny mouse, Ecuadorian spiny mouse, or gray spiny mouse, is a species of rodent in the genus Scolomys of family Cricetidae. It is a forest mouse and was thought to be endemic to Ecuador but it is now known to have a wider distribution, being also present in part of Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Scolomys melanops
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Lesser ricefield rat with a weight of 104 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Hinde’s rock rat with a weight of 141 grams
- Lataste’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Sonoran harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 119 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Scolomys melanops
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scolomys melanops:
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys flavescens bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Philippine pygmy squirrel bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Red tree vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Santa Cruz mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Common noctule bringing 28 grams to the scale