It is hard to guess what a Commerson’s roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Commerson’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros commersoni) on average weights 92 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Commerson’s roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). It is usually born with about 28 grams (0.06 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Commerson’s roundleaf bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Commerson’s roundleaf bat (Macronycteris commersoni), also known as Commerson’s leaf-nosed bat, is a species of bat endemic to Madagascar. It is named after French naturalist Philibert Commerson (1727-1773). Bat populations of Africa or São Tomé and Príncipe formerly considered part of this species are now classified separately as M. gigas, M. thomensis or M. vattatus, while one from Madagascar was split off to become M. cryptovalorona. It was formerly placed in the genus Hipposideros, but moved to the resurrected Macronycteris in 2017 on the basis of molecular evidence.
Animals of the same family as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Indian roundleaf bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Bicolored roundleaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Trident bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros commersoni:
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Patagonian opossum bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Inca Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 109 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Commerson’s roundleaf bat:
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sonoma chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Commerson’s roundleaf bat: