It is hard to guess what a Hastings River mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hastings River mouse (Pseudomys oralis) on average weights 95 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Hastings River mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Hastings River mouse (Pseudomys oralis) is a species of Australian rodent in the subfamily Murinae of the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Hastings River mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Andean vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Oecomys bicolor with a weight of 37 grams
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- São Paulo grass mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a weight of 286 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Angular hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hastings River mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys oralis:
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Harrington’s rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Fat sand rat bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hastings River mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hastings River mouse:
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Goliath shrew with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)