It is hard to guess what a Sinaloan pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sinaloan pocket mouse (Chaetodipus pernix) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Sinaloan pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.1 cm (0′ 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.
The Sinaloan pocket mouse (Chaetodipus pernix) is one of 17 species of pocket mice in the genus Chaetodipus. Two subspecies of C. pernix are recognized, C. p. pernix and C. p. rostratus, all are endemic to Mexico.This small mouse lives among shrubs and has a wide range of coat colors.
Animals of the same family as a Sinaloan pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Little desert pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- California kangaroo rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sinaloan pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus pernix:
- Parti-coloured bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Spotted bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Little wood mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- House mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Colombian forest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Pond bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sinaloan pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sinaloan pocket mouse:
- Mauritian tomb bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sandy inland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)