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Bramble Cay melomys size: How big do they get?

How big does a Bramble Cay melomys get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:

A grown Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) reaches an average size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″).

When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 100 grams (0.22 lbs). The Bramble Cay melomys (genus: Melomys) 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 average adult size of a Bramble Cay melomys is (0' 6

The Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rubicola), is a recently extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae and subfamily Murinae. It was an endemic species of the isolated Bramble Cay, a vegetated coral cay located at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Described by researchers as having last been seen in 2009 and declared extinct by the Queensland Government and University of Queensland researchers in 2016, it was formally declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in May 2015 and the Australian government in February 2019. Having been the only mammal endemic to the reef, its extinction was described as the first extinction of a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change.

Animals of the same family as a Bramble Cay melomys

We found other animals of the Muridae family:

Animals with the same size as a Bramble Cay melomys

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bramble Cay melomys:

Animals with the same weight as a Bramble Cay melomys

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys rubicola: