It is hard to guess what a Smoky pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys tylorhinus) on average weights 403 grams (0.89 lbs).
The Smoky pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Cratogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.4 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:
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Southern pocket gopher with a weight of 126 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Desert pocket gopher with a weight of 206 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher with a weight of 81 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 Cratogeomys tylorhinus:
- Brown four-eyed opossum bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rabbit bringing 437 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Common yellow-toothed cavy bringing 387 grams to the scale
- White-footed tamarin bringing 457 grams to the scale
- Derby’s woolly opossum bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Japen rat bringing 380 grams to the scale
- Buffy-headed marmoset bringing 374 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:
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Texas pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cape ground squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
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: