It is hard to guess what a Southern pygmy mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern pygmy mouse (Baiomys musculus) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Southern pygmy mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Baiomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Southern pygmy mouses have 2 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 southern pygmy mouse (Baiomys musculus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Animals of the same family as a Southern pygmy mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 117 grams
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
- Yellow-haired hill rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Bush vlei rat with a weight of 102 grams
- African smoky mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Striped field mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Japanese grass vole with a weight of 29 grams
- Goldman’s water mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Pale field rat with a weight of 169 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern pygmy mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Baiomys musculus:
- Lander’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Alpine shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gray bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Brown long-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris sylvestris bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Hairy-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern pygmy mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern pygmy mouse:
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Merriam’s shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern pygmy mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern pygmy mouse: