It is hard to guess what a Diminutive woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Diminutive woodrat (Nelsonia neotomodon) on average weights 80 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Diminutive woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Nelsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 diminutive woodrat (Nelsonia neotomodon) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Diminutive woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a weight of 27 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 100 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Black-eared mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Smith’s vole with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Diminutive woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nelsonia neotomodon:
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Japanese mole bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Gansu pika bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Big deer mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale