It is hard to guess what a Tyler’s mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tyler’s mouse opossum (Marmosa tyleriana) on average weights 32 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Tyler’s mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.9 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Tyler’s mouse opossums 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.
Tyler’s mouse opossum (Marmosa tyleriana) is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It lives in rainforests of the Guiana Highlands of southern Venezuela at elevations between 1300 and 2200 m. The species has only been found on three isolated tepuis (Auyantepui, Marahuaca and Sarisariñama). All three of these locations are in protected areas (Canaima, Duida-Marahuaca and Jaua-Sarisariñama national parks).The Latin species name refers to the habitat in which the opossum was first found, a Tyleria forest. In turn, both the genus Tyleria and the opossum’s common name refer to Sidney F. Tyler, an American historian and photographer who helped finance the 1928-29 expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to the headwaters of the Orinoco, during which the opossum was discovered.
Animals of the same family as a Tyler’s mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Gray slender opossum with a weight of 54 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Red mouse opossum with a weight of 63 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a weight of 246 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Northern gracile opossum with a weight of 23 grams
- Guajira mouse opossum with a weight of 46 grams
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a weight of 365 grams
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Tyler’s mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa tyleriana:
- Macmillan’s thicket rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Fawn antechinus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian thicket rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked dunnart bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tyler’s mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tyler’s mouse opossum:
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- California kangaroo rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tyler’s mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Tyler’s mouse opossum: