It is hard to guess what a Dark long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dark long-tongued bat (Lichonycteris obscura) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Dark long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Lichonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45 cm (1′ 6″).
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 dark long-tongued bat (Lichonycteris obscura) is a bat species from South and Central America. It was formerly considered monotypic within the genus Lichonycteris.
Animals of the same family as a Dark long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Red fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- MacConnell’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Ipanema bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dark long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lichonycteris obscura:
- Short-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Beatrix’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Desert pygmy mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Wollaston’s roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Malagasy serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Tundra shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale