It is hard to guess what a Commissaris’s long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Commissaris’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga commissarisi) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Commissaris’s long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Glossophaga). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.69 meter (18′ 9″). Normally, Commissaris’s long-tongued bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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.
Commissaris’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga commissarisi) is a bat species from South and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Commissaris’s long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Pale spear-nosed bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Pygmy round-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Miller’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Tonatia silvicola with a weight of 32 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Commissaris’s long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Glossophaga commissarisi:
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chestnut sac-winged bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Gray climbing mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pacific shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Common shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Dark-winged lesser house bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale