It is hard to guess what a Coxing’s white-bellied rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Coxing’s white-bellied rat (Niviventer coxingi) on average weights 80 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Coxing’s white-bellied rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Niviventer). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Coxing’s white-bellied rats have 2 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.
Coxing’s white-bellied rat (Niviventer coninga) is a rodent in the family Muridae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864. It is found only in Taiwan.
Animals of the same family as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 20 grams
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 189 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Algerian mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Fat sand rat with a weight of 102 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Niviventer coxingi:
- Malayan mountain spiny rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Oxymycterus hucucha bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Big-eared hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Big deer mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Zambian mole-rat bringing 76 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Coxing’s white-bellied rat:
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common vole with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat: