How big does a False water rat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown False water rat (Xeromys myoides) reaches an average size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 45 grams (0.1 lbs). A False water rat has 2 babies at once. The False water rat (genus: Xeromys) 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 false water rat (Xeromys myoides) is a species of rodent native to waterways of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a False water rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nigerian gerbil with a weight of 29 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis with a weight of 23 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- King rat (animal) with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Big deer mouse with 2 babies per litter
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a False water rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as False water rat:
- Sagebrush vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sulawesi rousette with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a False water rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a False water rat:
- Armored rat
- Eastern common cuscus
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Snow leopard
- Fraser’s musk shrew
- Desert woodrat
- Kodkod
- Golden-backed tree-rat
- Siberian roe deer
- Buller’s chipmunk
Animals with the same weight as a False water rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Xeromys myoides:
- Melanomys zunigae bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Panamint kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Andean caenolestid bringing 47 grams to the scale
- East African little collared fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Feather-tailed possum bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale