How many baby Long-nosed dasyures are in a litter?
A Long-nosed dasyure (Phascomurexia naso) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Phascomurexia). An adult Long-nosed dasyure grows up to a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
The long-nosed dasyure (Phascomurexia naso) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Long-nosed dasyure is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Three-striped dasyure weighting only 223 grams
- New Guinean quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew raching a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Tiger quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Carpentarian dunnart weighting only 25 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-nosed dasyure
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Long-eared hedgehog
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Hooper’s mouse
- Shipton’s mountain cavy
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Dusky caenolestid
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Kashmir flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed dasyure
What other animals weight around 52 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Hylaeamys megacephalus weighting 57 grams
- Great evening bat weighting 49 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse weighting 49 grams
- Mamore arboreal rice rat weighting 62 grams
- Marsh rice rat weighting 53 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Montane vole weighting 42 grams
- Lesser tree mouse weighting 45 grams
- Swamp antechinus weighting 53 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting 55 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed dasyure
Also reaching around 12.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Narrow-headed slender opossum gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Monito del monte gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chipmunk gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)