It is hard to guess what a Oyapock’s fish-eating rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oyapock’s fish-eating rat (Neusticomys oyapocki) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Oyapock’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.
Oyapock’s fish-eating rat (Neusticomys oyapocki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Oyapock’s fish-eating rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Silky Oldfield mouse with a weight of 115 grams
- Gambian pouched rat bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Darien harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Scolomys ucayalensis with a weight of 26 grams
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Typical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Crested-tailed deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with a weight of 111 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oyapock’s fish-eating rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neusticomys oyapocki:
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Musso’s fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Chinanteco deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Chihuahuan mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale