It is hard to guess what a Isabelle’s ghost bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Isabelle’s ghost bat (Diclidurus isabellus) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Isabelle’s ghost bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Diclidurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Isabelle’s ghost bat (Diclidurus isabella) is a bat species found in northwestern Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela, and possibly Colombia. It was discovered in October 1916 by Emilie Snethlage, and described by Oldfield Thomas in 1920.While the species name is suggestive that he named it after someone, his notes did not say this as they usually did when he named a species after someone. It has been suggested that the species name is in reference to the color isabelline, which describes the color of this species. In that case, the common name should instead be the isabelline ghost bat.They are pale brown in color, with the head and shoulders appearing whitish. Their forearms are approximately 54 mm (2.1 in) long.
Animals of the same family as a Isabelle’s ghost bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- African sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Mauritian tomb bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Isabelle’s ghost bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diclidurus isabellus:
- Merida small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Allen’s big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Andean small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Alston’s brown mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale