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 (Protochromys fellowsi) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Protochromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 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:
- Western red-backed vole with a weight of 18 grams
- Akodon aerosus with a weight of 60 grams
- Kimberley rock rat with a weight of 95 grams
- Buxton’s jird with 5 babies per litter
- Oligoryzomys arenalis with a weight of 25 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 46 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus with a weight of 61 grams
- Mozambique thicket rat with a weight of 45 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 Protochromys fellowsi:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Big deer mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Gray leaf-eared mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 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:
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Steppe pika with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Phillips’s gerbil with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Australian swamp rat with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
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: