It is hard to guess what a Smoky pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky pocket gopher (Pappogeomys tylorhinus) on average weights 403 grams (0.89 lbs).
The Smoky pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Pappogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.5 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Smoky pocket gophers have 1 babies per litter.
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 smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico (Querétaro). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Molecular phylogenetics has revealed that this species also includes the animals formerly separated as C. gymnurus, C. neglectus, C. tylorhinus and C. zinseri.
Animals of the same family as a Smoky pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
- Hispid pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pappogeomys tylorhinus:
- Golden bandicoot bringing 425 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Greater mole-rat bringing 470 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
- Silvery marmoset bringing 376 grams to the scale
- Guaira spiny rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur bringing 326 grams to the scale
- Black-tufted marmoset bringing 340 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smoky pocket gopher:
- Northeast African mole-rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Collie’s squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Smoky pocket gopher: