It is hard to guess what a Sinnamary brush-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sinnamary brush-tailed rat (Isothrix sinnamariensis) on average weights 291 grams (0.64 lbs).
The Sinnamary brush-tailed rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Isothrix). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.6 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Sinnamary brush-tailed rat (Isothrix sinnamariensis), is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana, and possibly Suriname. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Sinnamary brush-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Montane bamboo rat with a weight of 382 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat with a weight of 30 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 243 grams
- O’Connell’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sinnamary brush-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Isothrix sinnamariensis:
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel bringing 307 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Red slender loris bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Somali bushbaby bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sinnamary brush-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sinnamary brush-tailed rat:
- Japen rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northeast African mole-rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Green bush squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- San MartÃn Island woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)