It is hard to guess what a Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat (Trinomys iheringi) on average weights 220 grams (0.49 lbs).
The Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Trinomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 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.
Ihering’s Atlantic spiny-rat (Trinomys iheringi), is a spiny rat species from South America. It is endemic to Brazil, and was named in honor of Hermann von Ihering.
Animals of the same family as a Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 282 grams
- Sucre spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Greedy olalla rat with a weight of 206 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Colombian spiny rat with a weight of 312 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat with a weight of 627 grams
- Long-tailed spiny rat with a weight of 205 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Pará spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Guaira spiny rat with a weight of 349 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Trinomys iheringi:
- Robust tuco-tuco bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Argentine tuco-tuco bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Large vlei rat bringing 192 grams to the scale
- White-bellied nesomys bringing 214 grams to the scale
- Kintampo rope squirrel bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat:
- Anthony’s woodrat with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small flying fox with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed giant rat with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)