It is hard to guess what a Euryoryzomys legatus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Euryoryzomys legatus (Oryzomys legatus) on average weights 61 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Euryoryzomys legatus is from the family Muridae (genus: Oryzomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.2 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Euryoryzomys legatus, also known as the Tarija oryzomys or big-headed rice rat, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It now belongs to the genus Euryoryzomys, having previously been placed in Oryzomys. It is found in the eastern Andes of northwestern Argentina and southern Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Euryoryzomys legatus
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Eastern heather vole with a weight of 27 grams
- Smoky grass mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mediterranean pine vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Charming climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat with a weight of 180 grams
- Montane wood mouse with a weight of 36 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Euryoryzomys legatus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oryzomys legatus:
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Pohle’s fruit bat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Greater big-footed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Gray leaf-eared mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Crab-eating rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys bolivaris bringing 60 grams to the scale
- South African pouched mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Sambirano mouse lemur bringing 49 grams to the scale