It is hard to guess what a Short-furred dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-furred dasyure (Murexia longicaudata) on average weights 161 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Short-furred dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Murexia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18 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 short-furred dasyure (Murexia longicaudata), also known as the short-haired marsupial mouse, is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. It is the only species in the genus Murexia. It lives in Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Short-furred dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Little long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 14 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 grams
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Speckled dasyure with a weight of 212 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Short-furred dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Murexia longicaudata:
- Mindoro striped rat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Chacoan tuco-tuco bringing 166 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Short-furred dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Short-furred dasyure:
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Harpy fruit bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)