It is hard to guess what a Gnome fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gnome fruit-eating bat (Artibeus gnomus) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Gnome fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 gnome fruit-eating bat (Dermanura gnoma) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. This species was originally discovered to be different from the other known species of fruit bats, but later, in 1994 were mistakenly grouped under Artibeus cinereus as a synonym. However, this has since been corrected by more closely studying their physical differences and by biomolecular analysis.
Animals of the same family as a Gnome fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Brazilian big-eyed bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gnome fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus gnomus:
- Chestnut climbing mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s big-eared bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Thick-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Ozimops planiceps bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Taiga shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale