It is hard to guess what a Bramble Cay melomys weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Bramble Cay melomys is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.7 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Bramble Cay melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rubicola), is a recently extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae and subfamily Murinae. It was an endemic species of the isolated Bramble Cay, a vegetated coral cay located at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Described by researchers as having last been seen in 2009 and declared extinct by the Queensland Government and University of Queensland researchers in 2016, it was formally declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in May 2015 and the Australian government in February 2019. Having been the only mammal endemic to the reef, its extinction was described as the first extinction of a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change.
Animals of the same family as a Bramble Cay melomys
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Steppe lemming with a weight of 20 grams
- Nayarit mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 32 grams
- Smith’s vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Arizona cotton rat with a weight of 198 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Bramble Cay melomys
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys rubicola:
- Slender treeshrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Eastern mole bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Red hocicudo bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori otter shrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Asian garden dormouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Highland streaked tenrec bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Big-eared hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bramble Cay melomys
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bramble Cay melomys:
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sculptor squirrel with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)