It is hard to guess what a Oldfield white-bellied rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oldfield white-bellied rat (Niviventer culturatus) on average weights 81 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Oldfield white-bellied rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Niviventer). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.3 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Oldfield white-bellied rat or soft-furred Taiwan niviventer (Niviventer culturatus) is a species of phat rat in the family Muridae. It is found only in Taiwan. It has also been considered a subspecies of Niviventer niviventer and included in Niviventer confucianus.
Animals of the same family as a Oldfield white-bellied rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater stick-nest rat with a weight of 329 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse with a weight of 125 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Oxymycterus hucucha with a weight of 67 grams
- Big deer mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Akodon spegazzinii with a weight of 28 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
- Olive grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oldfield white-bellied rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Niviventer culturatus:
- Philippine dawn bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Gregarious short-tailed rat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- North American brown lemming bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Splendid climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Hero shrew bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Oldfield white-bellied rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Oldfield white-bellied rat:
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern collared lemming with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)