It is hard to guess what a Cerradomys subflavus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cerradomys subflavus (Oryzomys subflavus) on average weights 49 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Cerradomys subflavus is from the family Muridae (genus: Oryzomys). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Cerradomys subflavuss have 4 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.
Cerradomys subflavus, also known as the terraced rice rat or flavescent oryzomys, is a rodent species from South America in the genus Cerradomys. It is found in the states of Goiás, São Paulo, and Minas Gerais, Brazil. Populations in Bolivia, Paraguay, and elsewhere in Brazil that were previously placed in this species are now classified as various other species of Cerradomys.
Animals of the same family as a Cerradomys subflavus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Eligmodontia typus with a weight of 17 grams
- Paramo Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Link rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Neacomys spinosus with a weight of 19 grams
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 104 grams
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- White-eared cotton rat with a weight of 132 grams
- Creeping vole with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cerradomys subflavus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oryzomys subflavus:
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Northern water rat bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart bringing 55 grams to the scale
- California mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Little collared fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cerradomys subflavus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cerradomys subflavus:
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cerradomys subflavus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Cerradomys subflavus: