It is hard to guess what a Golden Atlantic tree-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys blainvillii) on average weights 243 grams (0.54 lbs).
The Golden Atlantic tree-rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Phyllomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
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 golden Atlantic tree-rat, Phyllomys blainvillii, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Golden Atlantic tree-rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Pacific spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Long-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 205 grams
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 355 grams
- Napo spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Guaira spiny rat with a weight of 349 grams
- Plain brush-tailed rat with a weight of 105 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden Atlantic tree-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phyllomys blainvillii:
- Eastern rat bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Yucatan squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Guyanan spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Eastern woodrat bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale