It is hard to guess what a Van Deusen’s rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Van Deusen’s rat (Stenomys vandeuseni) on average weights 67 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Van Deusen’s rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Stenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Van Deusen’s 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.
Van Deusen’s rat (Rattus vandeuseni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is endemic to the mountains of southeast Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Van Deusen’s rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Eligmodontia typus with a weight of 17 grams
- Dusky-footed woodrat with a weight of 219 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat with a weight of 511 grams
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with a weight of 71 grams
- Slender rat with a weight of 109 grams
- Oecomys paricola with a weight of 73 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Western harvest mouse with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Van Deusen’s rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Stenomys vandeuseni:
- Ruschi’s rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Northern collared lemming bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Van Deusen’s rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Van Deusen’s rat:
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-striped dasyure with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Panamint chipmunk with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern flying squirrel with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Van Deusen’s rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Van Deusen’s rat: