It is hard to guess what a Elegant myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Elegant myotis (Myotis elegans) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Elegant myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″).
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 elegant myotis (Myotis elegans) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Animals of the same family as a Elegant myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Myotis bocagei with a weight of 7 grams
- Horsfield’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Tickell’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- White-winged serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Gould’s wattled bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Schlieffen’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Light-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Elegant myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis elegans:
- Remy’s pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pygmy long-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Insular horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least long-fingered bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Thailand roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Clear-winged woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale