It is hard to guess what a Broad-headed spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-headed spiny rat (Clyomys bishopi) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Broad-headed spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Clyomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 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 broad-headed spiny rat (Clyomys laticeps) is a spiny rat species from South America. The etymology of the species name is the Latin word laticeps meaning “wide-headed”.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-headed spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat with a weight of 339 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 400 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat with a weight of 600 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-headed spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Clyomys bishopi:
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded tomb bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Large Asian roundleaf bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Fringe-lipped bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Sagebrush vole bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Lesser bulldog bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Wood lemming bringing 30 grams to the scale