It is hard to guess what a False water rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult False water rat (Xeromys myoides) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The False water rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Xeromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.3 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, False water 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.
The false water rat (Xeromys myoides) is a species of rodent native to waterways of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a False water rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Blackish grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Sula rat with a weight of 131 grams
- White-footed mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Cheesman’s gerbil with a weight of 28 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Northern bog lemming with a weight of 21 grams
- Ethiopian striped mouse with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a False water rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Xeromys myoides:
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Marsh rice rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Pen-tailed treeshrew bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a False water rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as False water rat:
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a False water rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a False water rat: