It is hard to guess what a San Martín Island woodrat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult San Martín Island woodrat (Neotoma martinensis) on average weights 240 grams (0.53 lbs).
The San Martín Island woodrat is from the family Muridae (genus: Neotoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.4 cm (0′ 8″).
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 San Martín Island woodrat (Neotoma martinensis) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
Animals of the same family as a San Martín Island woodrat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Slender rat with a weight of 109 grams
- Diminutive woodrat with a weight of 80 grams
- Bush vlei rat with a weight of 103 grams
- Lakeland Downs mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Maxomys baeodon with a weight of 159 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Mexican harvest mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Wood mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a weight of 32 grams
Animals with the same weight as a San Martín Island woodrat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neotoma martinensis:
- Common degu bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Siberian zokor bringing 225 grams to the scale
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Ceram fruit bat bringing 228 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Ear-spot squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a San Martín Island woodrat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as San Martín Island woodrat:
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northeast African mole-rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)