It is hard to guess what a Oecomys phaeotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys phaeotis (Oecomys phaeotis) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Oecomys phaeotis is from the family Muridae (genus: Oecomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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.
Oecomys phaeotis, also known as the dusky arboreal rice rat or dusky oecomys, is a species of rodent in the genus Oecomys of family Cricetidae. It is found on the eastern slopes of the Andes of Peru, at 1500 to 2000 m altitude.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys phaeotis
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Biting chinchilla mouse with a weight of 82 grams
- Kemp’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- California vole with a weight of 57 grams
- Yellow steppe lemming with a weight of 26 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Blackish deer mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Pouched gerbil with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys phaeotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys phaeotis:
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Crab-eating rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Oldfield white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Coast mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- California chipmunk bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse bringing 65 grams to the scale