It is hard to guess what a Speckled dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Speckled dasyure (Neophascogale lorentzi) on average weights 212 grams (0.47 lbs).
The Speckled dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Neophascogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.6 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 speckled dasyure (Neophascogale lorentzii), also known as the long-clawed marsupial mouse, is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. It is an inhabitant of Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is the only member of the genus Neophascogale.Its weight varies between 200 and 250 g; its body length ranges 16–23 cm, and the tail 16–23 cm. As its name suggested, its dark gray fur is speckled with long white hairs. It has short, powerful limbs with long claws on all toes, used to dig for grubs, worms, and similar prey.
Animals of the same family as a Speckled dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Red-tailed phascogale with a weight of 43 grams
- Hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 15 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Bronze quoll with a weight of 896 grams
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Speckled dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neophascogale lorentzi:
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Sonoran woodrat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Collared tuco-tuco bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Little ground squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Banks flying fox bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Bolivian squirrel bringing 190 grams to the scale
- Yucatan squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Speckled dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Speckled dasyure:
- Temotu flying fox with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Javanese flying squirrel with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)