It is hard to guess what a Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat (Pelomys isseli) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Pelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 88.6 cm (2′ 11″).
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.
Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat (Pelomys isseli) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Uganda.Its natural habitats are arable land and rural gardens.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Mexican water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Blackish deer mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Ruschi’s rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Junín grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pelomys isseli:
- Western mastiff bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Córdoba vesper mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Dibbler bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Chaco grass mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Golden-brown mouse lemur bringing 58 grams to the scale
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Alston’s cotton rat bringing 55 grams to the scale