It is hard to guess what a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rufescens) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.7 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rats have 2 babies per litter.
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 mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse with a weight of 170 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 102 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Steppe field mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- African marsh rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Eastern shrew mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys rufescens:
- Nimba otter shrew bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Cabrera’s vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys legatus bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Edward’s swamp rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Pohle’s fruit bat bringing 69 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat:
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Panamint chipmunk with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brown mouse lemur with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat: