It is hard to guess what a White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pallidior) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Thylamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.5 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 white-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pallidior) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Guajira mouse opossum with a weight of 46 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum with a weight of 258 grams
- Panama slender opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Brazilian slender opossum with a weight of 38 grams
- Northern red-sided opossum with a weight of 79 grams
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Delicate slender opossum with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylamys pallidior:
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Bolam’s mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pallid large-footed myotis bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Bates’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Silver fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Mexican free-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys minutus bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum:
- Little collared fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern gracile opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rümmler’s brush mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)