It is hard to guess what a Groove-toothed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Groove-toothed bat (Phoniscus atrox) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Groove-toothed bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Phoniscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
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 groove-toothed bat (Phoniscus atrox) is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae, the vesper bats. It is native to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. It is an uncommon species that depends on forests for survival, and it is threatened by deforestation.
Animals of the same family as a Groove-toothed bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Great bent-winged bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Great evening bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Eastern long-fingered bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Clear-winged woolly bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Western false pipistrelle with a weight of 23 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Chinese pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Riparian myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Hoary bat with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Groove-toothed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phoniscus atrox:
- Lesser bamboo bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Proboscis bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Riparian myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Light-winged lesser house bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pipistrellus babu bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Flute-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Brown tube-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale