It is hard to guess what a Musso’s fish-eating rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Musso’s fish-eating rat (Neusticomys mussoi) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Musso’s fish-eating rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neusticomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.8 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Musso’s fish-eating rat (Neusticomys mussoi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic towestern Venezuela, where it has been found at altitudes of 1000 to 1200 m. It is semiaquatic and feeds on freshwater invertebrates.
Animals of the same family as a Musso’s fish-eating rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Senegal gerbil with a weight of 60 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 121 grams
- De Vis’s woolly rat bringing 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) to the scale
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser ricefield rat with a weight of 104 grams
- African wading rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Jaliscan cotton rat with a weight of 120 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Musso’s fish-eating rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neusticomys mussoi:
- Cloud forest grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Southwestern myotis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Molina’s grass mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Sclater’s golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Mexican deer mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale