How big does a Michoacan pocket gopher get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Michoacan pocket gopher (Zygogeomys trichopus) reaches an average size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 474 grams (1.04 lbs). The Michoacan pocket gopher (genus: Zygogeomys) is a member of the family Geomyidae.
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 Michoacan pocket gopher (Zygogeomys trichopus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is monotypic within the genus Zygogeomys. It is endemic to Mexico where its natural habitat is temperate, high-altitude forests. Its numbers are declining and it is listed by the IUCN as “endangered”.
Animals of the same family as a Michoacan pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same size as a Michoacan pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Michoacan pocket gopher:
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black rat with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Colombian weasel with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dusky-footed woodrat with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Plantain squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Michoacan pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zygogeomys trichopus:
- Greater guinea pig bringing 460 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Texas pocket gopher bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Giant pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Greater mole-rat bringing 470 grams to the scale
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat bringing 394 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Mauritian flying fox bringing 473 grams to the scale