It is hard to guess what a Broad-striped dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Broad-striped dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Paramurexia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Broad-striped dasyures have 3 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 broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.It is the only species in the genus Paramurexia.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-striped dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Bronze quoll with a weight of 896 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramurexia rothschildi:
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Senegal gerbil bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Lesser musky fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys albigularis bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Melanomys zunigae bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys keaysi bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Large fruit-eating bat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Broad-striped dasyure:
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Broad-striped dasyure
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Broad-striped dasyure: