It is hard to guess what a Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes) on average weights 71 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat, or fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia.This species has long been commonly known by the descriptive English common name fawn-footed melomys, but during the 1990s, a push began for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names. Accordingly, in 1995, the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They compiled two indigenous Australian names for this species: corrill, recorded from Stradbroke Island; and cunduoo, recorded from the vicinity of the Richmond River. They recommended the adoption of the former of these names, but with the orthography korril. However, this recommendation was not prescriptive, and to what extent it will be adopted remains to be seen.
Animals of the same family as a Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oecomys phaeotis with a weight of 73 grams
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Hatt’s vesper rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Eastern rat with a weight of 230 grams
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Field vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys cervinipes:
- Paramo Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Southern big-eared mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Ungava collared lemming bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s chipmunk bringing 74 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat:
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-eared chipmunk with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat: