It is hard to guess what a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys lanosus) on average weights 117 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Mammelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.1 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rats have 2 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.
The large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys lanosus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 62 grams
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Crab-eating rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Crete spiny mouse with a weight of 62 grams
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse with a weight of 47 grams
- Desert mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mammelomys lanosus:
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Unexpected cotton rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Malayan field rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Harris’s antelope squirrel bringing 127 grams to the scale
- Madagascan flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 118 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat:
- Slender squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat: