It is hard to guess what a Fischer’s guiara weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fischer’s guiara (Euryzygomatomys spinosus) on average weights 188 grams (0.41 lbs).
The Fischer’s guiara is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Euryzygomatomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Fischer’s guiara (Euryzygomatomys spinosus), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It is one of only two species in the genus Euryzygomatomys.
Animals of the same family as a Fischer’s guiara
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Guaira spiny rat with a weight of 349 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 400 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 215 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat with a weight of 627 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 224 grams
- Greedy olalla rat with a weight of 206 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fischer’s guiara
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Euryzygomatomys spinosus:
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Southwestern water vole bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Ashy chinchilla rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed phascogale bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Echigo mole bringing 163 grams to the scale
- Western nesomys bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Black-striped squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale