It is hard to guess what a Andean rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Andean rat (Lenoxus apicalis) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Andean rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Lenoxus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.2 cm (0′ 8″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Andean rat (Lenoxus apicalis) is the only species in the genus Lenoxus. It is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini found on the eastern slopes of the Andes of eastern Peru and western Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Andean rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Reed vole with 5 babies per litter
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Savile’s bandicoot rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Western chestnut mouse with a weight of 70 grams
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Andean rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lenoxus apicalis:
- Garlepp’s mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Michoacan deer mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed gerbil bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Chestnut tree mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-striped opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Eremoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Rupp’s mouse bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale