It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys levipes) on average weights 82 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paramelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rats have 1 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 long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat or Papuan lowland paramelomys (Paramelomys levipes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Northern bog lemming with a weight of 21 grams
- Summit rat with a weight of 107 grams
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 64 grams
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with a weight of 419 grams
- Yellow-haired hill rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 18 grams
- Flat-headed vole with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramelomys levipes:
- Northern three-toed jerboa bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Arianus’s rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Oecomys phaeotis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- European mole bringing 86 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed 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 Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat:
- Brazilian slender opossum with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- New Guinean rat with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat: