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 coninga) 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:
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 43 grams
- New Holland mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Arizona cotton rat with a weight of 198 grams
- Aztec mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-haired rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Mountain spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Midday jird with 5 babies per litter
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 coninga:
- Hastings River mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Red rock rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Peruvian Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 67 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:
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- California chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sundevall’s jird with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tarabundí vole with a size of 12.1 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: