It is hard to guess what a Broad-headed spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-headed spiny rat (Clyomys laticeps) on average weights 201 grams (0.44 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:
- Short-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 314 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a weight of 167 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 laticeps:
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Long-haired rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Black-striped squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Salta tuco-tuco bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Arizona cotton rat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Ear-spot squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 166 grams to the scale