It is hard to guess what a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys mollis) on average weights 90 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Paramelomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rats have 1 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.
Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys mollis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Silent grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 121 grams
- Musso’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil with a weight of 100 grams
- Togo mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Unexpected cotton rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with a weight of 30 grams
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Bibimys torresi with a weight of 28 grams
- Singing vole with a weight of 41 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paramelomys mollis:
- Zygodontomys brunneus bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Oecomys phaeotis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Lesser ricefield rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rutilus bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Bushveld gerbil bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Northern palm squirrel bringing 102 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat:
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican mouse opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large tree mouse with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat: