It is hard to guess what a Splendid climbing mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Splendid climbing mouse (Rhipidomys nitela) on average weights 89 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Splendid climbing mouse is from the family Muridae (genus: Rhipidomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21 cm (0′ 9″).
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 splendid climbing mouse (Rhipidomys nitela) is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Splendid climbing mouse
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Savanna gerbil with a weight of 121 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 29 grams
- Lesser bandicoot rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Tawny deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Chestnut climbing mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Splendid climbing mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhipidomys nitela:
- Long-haired rousette bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Japanese mole bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Mountain pocket gopher bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Puna mouse bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale