How big does a San Diego pocket mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) reaches an average size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 8.25 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 19 grams (0.04 lbs). Talking about reproduction, San Diego pocket mouses have 3 babies about 1 times per year. The San Diego pocket mouse (genus: Chaetodipus) is a member of the family Heteromyidae.
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 San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae. It occupies the southern region of Baja California near San Diego extending into Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a San Diego pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Agile kangaroo rat with 2 babies per litter
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Desert pocket mouse with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same size as a San Diego pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as San Diego pocket mouse:
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- American water shrew with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a San Diego pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a San Diego pocket mouse:
- Sable
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Flat-headed shrew
- Pyrenean desman
- Painted spiny pocket mouse
- Texas mouse
- Bicolored shrew
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Allen’s wood mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a San Diego pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a San Diego pocket mouse:
- Mountain degu with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Stoat with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 8.58 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- North African hedgehog with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Lesser grison with an average maximal age of 7.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a San Diego pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus fallax:
- Black-capped fruit bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Malagasy slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Tonatia carrikeri bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Luzon fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern freetail bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Ningbing false antechinus bringing 20 grams to the scale