It is hard to guess what a White-spined Atlantic spiny rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-spined Atlantic spiny rat (Proechimys albispinus) on average weights 285 grams (0.63 lbs).
The White-spined Atlantic spiny rat is from the family Echimyidae (genus: Proechimys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 42.8 cm (1′ 5″).
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 white-spined Atlantic spiny rat (Trinomys albispinus) is a spiny rat species endemic to Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a White-spined Atlantic spiny rat
We found other animals of the Echimyidae family:
- Peruvian tree-rat with a weight of 315 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat with 3 babies per litter
- Guyenne spiny rat with a weight of 285 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with a weight of 398 grams
- Steere’s spiny rat with a weight of 284 grams
- Giant tree-rat with a weight of 584 grams
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per litter
- White-tailed olalla rat with a weight of 274 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a weight of 610 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-spined Atlantic spiny rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proechimys albispinus:
- Common punaré bringing 298 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Ceram fruit bat bringing 228 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Magellanic tuco-tuco bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Golden angwantibo bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Four-toed hedgehog bringing 311 grams to the scale