It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed dasyure (Phascomurexia naso) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Long-nosed dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Phascomurexia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.2 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Long-nosed dasyures can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 dasyure (Phascomurexia naso) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Little red kaluta with a weight of 32 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phascomurexia naso:
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Ord’s kangaroo rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Cabrera’s vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Garlepp’s mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Michoacan deer mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Pyrenean desman bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-nosed dasyure:
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Handley’s slender opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western shrew mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cotton mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-nosed dasyure
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Long-nosed dasyure: