It is hard to guess what a Western shrew mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys occidentalis) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Western shrew mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudohydromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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 western shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys occidentalis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Western shrew mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Townsend’s vole with a weight of 52 grams
- Common rock rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Cactus mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per litter
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Persian jird with a weight of 108 grams
- Dollman’s melomys with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Bush rat with a weight of 124 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Western shrew mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudohydromys occidentalis:
- Great Basin pocket mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Stripe-faced dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Cape spiny mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Yellow-winged bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern freetail bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Western shrew mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western shrew mouse:
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern grasshopper mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)