It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed caenolestid weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed caenolestid (Rhyncholestes raphanurus) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Long-nosed caenolestid is from the family Caenolestidae (genus: Rhyncholestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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 long-nosed caenolestid (Rhyncholestes raphanurus), also known as the Chilean shrew opossum or long-nosed shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum that occurs in temperate forests of Argentina and southern Chile. It was first described by American zoologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood in 1924. The long-nosed caenolestid resembles Caenolestes species in morphology. It is characterized by a long, pointed snout, small eyes and ears, and one claw on a digit of each of the thin limbs. Little is known of its behavior; it appears to be terrestrial (lives on land), nocturnal (active mainly at night) and omnivorous. It prefers cool, moist areas, and has a small distribution. It is classified as near threatened by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed caenolestid
We found other animals of the Caenolestidae family:
- Andean caenolestid with a weight of 47 grams
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a weight of 40 grams
- Incan caenolestid with a weight of 23 grams
- Northern caenolestid with a weight of 31 grams
- Dusky caenolestid with a weight of 29 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed caenolestid
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhyncholestes raphanurus:
- White-collared fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- California pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Alpine pine vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Striped field mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Southern grasshopper mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Balochistan gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed caenolestid
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-nosed caenolestid:
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican mouse opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coruro with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- California kangaroo rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hispid pocket mouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoky mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)