How big does a Broad-striped dasyure get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi) reaches an average size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 53 grams (0.12 lbs). A Broad-striped dasyure has 3 babies at once. The Broad-striped dasyure (genus: Paramurexia) is a member of the family Dasyuridae.
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 broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.It is the only species in the genus Paramurexia.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-striped dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-footed dunnart with 8 babies per litter
- Common planigale with 7 babies per litter
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Parantechinus bilarni with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Broad-striped dasyure:
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican mouse opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-tailed vole with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Broad-striped dasyure
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Broad-striped dasyure:
- Pampas fox
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Yellow-throated marten
- Meerkat
- Sado mole
- Fulvous harvest mouse
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramurexia rothschildi:
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys oniscus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Northern water rat bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Emin’s gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Minor epauletted fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Short-snouted elephant shrew bringing 45 grams to the scale
