It is hard to guess what a Stella wood mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Stella wood mouse (Hylomyscus stella) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Stella wood mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Hylomyscus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Stella wood mouses have 3 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 Stella hylomyscus or Stella wood mouse (Hylomyscus stella) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Animals of the same family as a Stella wood mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Canyon mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Southwestern water vole with a weight of 220 grams
- Chestnut climbing mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with a weight of 79 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Lusitanian pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil with a weight of 100 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Stella wood mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylomyscus stella:
- Brazilian arboreal mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Pallid bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Tree bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- African smoky mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Drylands vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Stella wood mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Stella wood mouse: