How many baby Cerradomys subflavuss are in a litter?
A Cerradomys subflavus (Oryzomys subflavus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Oryzomys). An adult Cerradomys subflavus grows up to a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Cerradomys subflavus, also known as the terraced rice rat or flavescent oryzomys, is a rodent species from South America in the genus Cerradomys. It is found in the states of Goiás, São Paulo, and Minas Gerais, Brazil. Populations in Bolivia, Paraguay, and elsewhere in Brazil that were previously placed in this species are now classified as various other species of Cerradomys.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Cerradomys subflavus is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Thomas’s pine vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Stirton’s deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kemp’s thicket rat weighting only 75 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 613 grams
- Intelligent grass mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gleaning mouse weighting only 35 grams
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat weighting only 86 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Cerradomys subflavus
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
- Large bamboo rat
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Hazel dormouse
- New Holland mouse
- Nectomys squamipes
- Swift fox
- Great gerbil
- Sonoma chipmunk
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Cerradomys subflavus
What other animals weight around 49 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Hainan gymnure weighting 52 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 45 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- False water rat weighting 45 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat weighting 40 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird weighting 56 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Large Japanese field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 41 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cerradomys subflavus
Also reaching around 16 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Mexican mouse opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plains viscacha rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Val’s gundi gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stein’s rat gets as big as 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape York rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)