It is hard to guess what a Steinbach’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Steinbach’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys steinbachi) on average weights 385 grams (0.85 lbs).
The Steinbach’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.6 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Steinbach’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys steinbachi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is endemic to Bolivia. The species is named after zoological collector Dr. José Steinbach (1856–1929).
Animals of the same family as a Steinbach’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Robust tuco-tuco with a weight of 249 grams
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 202 grams
- Strong tuco-tuco with a weight of 233 grams
- Highland tuco-tuco with a weight of 327 grams
- Social tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 860 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco with a weight of 210 grams
- Reddish tuco-tuco with a weight of 173 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco with a weight of 400 grams
- White-toothed tuco-tuco with a weight of 244 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Steinbach’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys steinbachi:
- Black and rufous elephant shrew bringing 423 grams to the scale
- Checkered elephant shrew bringing 424 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Striped possum bringing 413 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed squirrel bringing 427 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Steinbach’s tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steinbach’s tuco-tuco:
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)