It is hard to guess what a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys platyops) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Lowland mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paramelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.8 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Lowland 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 lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys platyops) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Melanomys caliginosus with a weight of 41 grams
- Amazonian marsh rat with a weight of 120 grams
- California vole with a weight of 57 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis with a weight of 60 grams
- Olive montane mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 189 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brucepattersonius iheringi with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramelomys platyops:
- Northern red-sided opossum bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Eastern mole bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lowland 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 Lowland mosaic-tailed rat:
- Web-footed tenrec with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat: