It is hard to guess what a Flute-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Flute-nosed bat (Murina florium) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Flute-nosed bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Murina). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 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 flute-nosed bat (Murina florium) is a vespertilionid bat with an unusually shaped nose, the tubular nostrils facing outward from the end of the muzzle. They occur in the north of the Australian state of Queensland, in Indonesia, and on Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Flute-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Chinese pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Botta’s serotine with a weight of 15 grams
- Hinde’s lesser house bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Bobrinski’s serotine with a weight of 7 grams
- Common pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Southern yellow bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Eastern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Little brown bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Flute-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Murina florium:
- Percival’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Saussure’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Painted bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Common thick-thumbed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Thailand roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Rusty pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- California myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale