It is hard to guess what a Broad-toothed mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-toothed mouse (Mastacomys fuscus) on average weights 125 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Broad-toothed mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Mastacomys). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.6 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Broad-toothed mouses have 1 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-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-toothed mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Tiny fat mouse with a weight of 5 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Mimic tree rat with a weight of 975 grams
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Mexican harvest mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Oecomys cleberi with a weight of 73 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-toothed mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mastacomys fuscus:
- Asian garden dormouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Northern palm squirrel bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Spotted ground squirrel bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Broad-toothed mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Broad-toothed mouse:
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Round-tailed muskrat with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ornate flying fox with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Broad-toothed mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Broad-toothed mouse: