It is hard to guess what a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys lorentzii) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.6 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Lorentz’s 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.
Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys lorentzii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.According to the Kalam people of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, it helps spread karuka seeds.
Animals of the same family as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Canyon mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pleasant gerbil with a weight of 13 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 43 grams
- Pygmy gerbil with a weight of 8 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Turkish hamster with a weight of 198 grams
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 117 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis with a weight of 38 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys lorentzii:
- Tropical ground squirrel bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 152 grams to the scale
- New Caledonia flying fox bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Buller’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Guam flying fox bringing 153 grams to the scale
- Bridges’s degu bringing 162 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lorentz’s 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 Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat:
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape York rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Heath mouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat: