It is hard to guess what a White-bellied woolly mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-bellied woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus constantiae) on average weights 93 grams (0.21 lbs).
The White-bellied woolly mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Micoureus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.1 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, White-bellied woolly mouse opossums have 8 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 white-bellied woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa constantiae) is a small pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009. The second half of the species name was given in honour of Constance Sladen (née Anderson), wife of the naturalist Percy Sladen.
Animals of the same family as a White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
- White-eared opossum bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Northern gracile opossum with a weight of 23 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a weight of 61 grams
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micoureus constantiae:
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- White-bellied rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Large tree mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed mountain rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-bellied woolly 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 woolly mouse opossum:
- Phillips’s gerbil with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican ground squirrel with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Echigo mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Golden hamster with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a White-bellied woolly mouse opossum: