It is hard to guess what a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys rubex) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Mountain mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paramelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Mountain mosaic-tailed rats have 2 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 mountain mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys rubex) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Transcaspian vole with 2 babies per litter
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Angoni vlei rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Pseudoryzomys with a weight of 45 grams
- Long-footed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tatra pine vole with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramelomys rubex:
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Melanomys robustulus bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Emin’s gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Cairo spiny mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix illuteus bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Medje free-tailed bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain 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 Mountain mosaic-tailed rat:
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape York melomys with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat: