It is hard to guess what a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat (Trinomys dimidiatus) on average weights 167 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Trinomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Soft-spined Atlantic spiny 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 soft-spined Atlantic spiny-rat, Trinomys dimidiatus, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is endemic to Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 312 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat with a weight of 394 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 439 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat with a weight of 445 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Trinomys dimidiatus:
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Large treeshrew bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Ricefield rat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Bolaños woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat:
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Reddish tuco-tuco with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-furred dasyure with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat: