It is hard to guess what a Black-tailed dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-tailed dasyure (Murexechinus melanurus) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Black-tailed dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Murexechinus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Black-tailed dasyures can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 black-tailed dasyure (Murexechinus melanurus) 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.
Animals of the same family as a Black-tailed dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
- Chestnut dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-tailed dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Murexechinus melanurus:
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Mountain pygmy possum bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian thicket rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Four-striped grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black-tailed dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black-tailed dasyure:
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican shrew with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed potoroo with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dayak fruit bat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black-tailed dasyure
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Black-tailed dasyure: