How big does a Sandy inland mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Sandy inland mouse (Pseudomys hermannsburgensis) reaches an average size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 14 grams (0.03 lbs). A Sandy inland mouse has 2 babies at once. The Sandy inland mouse (genus: Pseudomys) is a member of the family Muridae.
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 sandy inland mouse (Pseudomys hermannsburgensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Also known as the Hermannsburg (Mission) false-mouse or Hermannsburg Mouse, it is endemic to Australia and found widely yet sparsely through arid and semi-arid areas.
Animals of the same family as a Sandy inland mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Small hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Perote mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Emin’s pouched rat bringing 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) to the scale
- Komodo rat with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Slender Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sandy inland mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sandy inland mouse:
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sandy inland mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Sandy inland mouse:
- Indian crested porcupine
- Siberian flying squirrel
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Crab-eating raccoon
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Antelope jackrabbit
- Asian particolored bat
- Long-nosed echymipera
- Lundomys
Animals with the same weight as a Sandy inland mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys hermannsburgensis:
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Large-eared slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Moonshine shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eastern shrew mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Acuminate horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Slender harvest mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little Indian field mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Bokhara horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale