It is hard to guess what a Smoky pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky pocket gopher (Pappogeomys zinseri) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 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″).
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:
- Desert pocket gopher with a weight of 206 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 266 grams
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
- Big pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a weight of 263 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 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 zinseri:
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- White-eared cotton rat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Piute ground squirrel bringing 165 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Dusky field rat bringing 157 grams to the scale
- Short-furred dasyure bringing 161 grams to the scale
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale