It is hard to guess what a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys fellowsi) on average weights 79 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.3 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Red-bellied 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 red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Protochromys fellowsi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Protochromys.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per litter
- Buffoon striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 50 grams
- White-eared cotton rat with a weight of 132 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Peters’s mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- True’s vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil with a weight of 17 grams
- Subalpine woolly rat bringing 1.99 kilos (4.39 lbs) to the scale
- Nectomys squamipes with a weight of 185 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melomys fellowsi:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Montane Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Eastern mole bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Big-eared woolly bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Biak glider bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Pohle’s fruit bat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Gray short-tailed opossum bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red-bellied 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 Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat:
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gansu pika with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brazilian slender opossum with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat: