It is hard to guess what a Eastern small-toothed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern small-toothed rat (Macruromys major) on average weights 357 grams (0.79 lbs).
The Eastern small-toothed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Macruromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.2 cm (0′ 10″).
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 eastern small-toothed rat (Macruromys major) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern small-toothed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Jico deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Taiga vole with a weight of 92 grams
- Black rat with a weight of 142 grams
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a weight of 304 grams
- Dalton’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern small-toothed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macruromys major:
- Mutable sun squirrel bringing 390 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy bringing 361 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- Highland tuco-tuco bringing 327 grams to the scale
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Greater stick-nest rat bringing 329 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Hammer-headed bat bringing 336 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern small-toothed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern small-toothed rat:
- Hammer-headed bat with a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Muskrat with a size of 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Rufous elephant shrew with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed giant rat with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mentawai squirrel with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose with a size of 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bryant’s woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)