It is hard to guess what a Small-toothed harvest mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small-toothed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys microdon) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Small-toothed harvest mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Reithrodontomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 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 small-toothed harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys microdon) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Small-toothed harvest mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Thespian grass mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Indian gerbil with a weight of 138 grams
- Cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Persian jird with a weight of 108 grams
- Eversmann’s hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Tamaulipan woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Red hocicudo with a weight of 82 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Small-toothed harvest mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Reithrodontomys microdon:
- Agile antechinus bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Ural field mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Big free-tailed bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Desert long-eared bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Percival’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Red tree vole bringing 22 grams to the scale