It is hard to guess what a Arnhem Land rock rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arnhem Land rock rat (Zyzomys maini) on average weights 94 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Arnhem Land rock rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Zyzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Arnhem Land rock rat (Zyzomys maini) also known as the Arnhem rock-rat and by the Indigenous Australian name of kodjperr is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in the Top End Region of the Northern Territory in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Arnhem Land rock rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Flat-headed vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Golden spiny mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a weight of 111 grams
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Common rock rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Silky Oldfield mouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Arnhem Land rock rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zyzomys maini:
- Gregarious short-tailed rat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Mountain pocket gopher bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Kobe mole bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Northern palm squirrel bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Southern climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale