It is hard to guess what a Texas pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Texas pocket gopher (Geomys personatus) on average weights 397 grams (0.88 lbs).
The Texas pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Geomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.4 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Texas pocket gophers 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 Texas pocket gopher (Geomys personatus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Tamaulipas in Mexico and in Texas in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Texas pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Southeastern pocket gopher with a weight of 201 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 419 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Texas pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geomys personatus:
- Buffy-tufted marmoset bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Vanuatu flying fox bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Gilliard’s flying fox bringing 406 grams to the scale
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat bringing 397 grams to the scale
- San Luis tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
- Mariana fruit bat bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Bagobo rat bringing 395 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Texas pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Texas pocket gopher:
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red bush squirrel with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Texas pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Texas pocket gopher: