It is hard to guess what a Short-haired water rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-haired water rat (Paraleptomys wilhelmina) on average weights 33 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Short-haired water rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paraleptomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.8 cm (0′ 5″).
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-haired water rat (Paraleptomys wilhelmina) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. There are two currently undescribed species allied with this taxon.
Animals of the same family as a Short-haired water rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Andean gerbil mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Akodon affinis with a weight of 24 grams
- Delicate vesper mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 20 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- White-footed climbing mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Short-haired water rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraleptomys wilhelmina:
- Cloud forest grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Himalayan water shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- European free-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Saunder’s vlei rat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- California red tree mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Chinese dormouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Short-haired water rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Short-haired water rat:
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blind mole with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)