How big does a Junin slender opossum get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Junin slender opossum (Marmosops juninensis) reaches an average size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). The Junin slender opossum (genus: Marmosops) is a member of the family Didelphidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Junin slender opossum (Marmosops juninensis) is a species of South American opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is known only from the valley of the Chanchamayu in Peru (a range that includes JunÃn Region) where it lives in Andean montane forests at elevations between 1460 and 2200 m. The species is threatened by destruction of its forest habitat as the area under cultivation in the region increases.
Animals of the same family as a Junin slender opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Emilia’s gracile opossum with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Grayish mouse opossum with 8 babies per litter
- Agile gracile opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Junin slender opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Junin slender opossum:
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern bog lemming with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)