It is hard to guess what a Holochilus brasiliensis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Holochilus brasiliensis (Holochilus brasiliensis) on average weights 155 grams (0.34 lbs).
The Holochilus brasiliensis is from the family Muridae (genus: Holochilus). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.3 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Holochilus brasiliensiss have 3 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.
Holochilus brasiliensis, also known as the Brazilian marsh rat or web-footed marsh rat, is a species of semiaquatic rodent from South America. It is found in northeastern Argentina, southern and eastern Brazil and in eastern Uruguay.
Animals of the same family as a Holochilus brasiliensis
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Long-haired rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 57 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Transandinomys talamancae with a weight of 54 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 100 grams
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Plains harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- African pygmy mouse with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Holochilus brasiliensis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Holochilus brasiliensis:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Large treeshrew bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Mexican ground squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Sangihe tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Harris’s antelope squirrel bringing 127 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Daurian pika bringing 131 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Holochilus brasiliensis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Holochilus brasiliensis: