It is hard to guess what a Wood sprite gracile opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wood sprite gracile opossum (Gracilinanus dryas) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Wood sprite gracile opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Gracilinanus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 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 wood sprite gracile opossum (Gracilinanus dryas) is a mammal. It is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Wood sprite gracile opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Northern red-sided opossum with a weight of 79 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- One-striped opossum with a weight of 55 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- White-eared opossum bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wood sprite gracile opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gracilinanus dryas:
- Common blossom bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Eurasian water shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- San Diego pocket mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Delicate slender opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Blackish white-toothed shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Brazilian big-eyed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Little yellow-shouldered bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wood sprite gracile opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wood sprite gracile opossum:
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hispid pocket mouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)