It is hard to guess what a Black-tailed dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-tailed dasyure (Antechinus melanurus) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Black-tailed dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 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:
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
- Gilbert’s dunnart with a weight of 19 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Yellow-footed antechinus with a weight of 44 grams
- Speckled dasyure with a weight of 212 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 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 Antechinus melanurus:
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Southwestern myotis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys alfaroi bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Mindanao montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Fringe-lipped bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Large myotis bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 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:
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese mole shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
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: