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 (Melomys mollis) on average weights 90 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Melomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.3 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:
- Mira climbing rat with a weight of 184 grams
- Long-haired rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Malayan field rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Guatemalan vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- True’s vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Nephelomys levipes with a weight of 60 grams
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 2 babies per litter
- Akodon azarae with a weight of 25 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 Melomys mollis:
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s chipmunk bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Northern red-sided opossum bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Diminutive woodrat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Greater spear-nosed bat bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Lesser ricefield rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s chipmunk bringing 79 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:
- Dayak fruit bat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiga vole with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese mole with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hottentot golden mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
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: