It is hard to guess what a Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina marinkellei) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Lonchorhina). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.28 meter (7′ 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.
Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina marinkellei) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Colombia. In 2013, Bat Conservation International listed this species as one of the 35 species of its worldwide priority list of conservation. Its species name marinkellei was chosen to honor the Dutch scientist Cornelis Johannes Marinkelle, who worked in Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Insular single leaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis with a weight of 10 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lonchorhina marinkellei:
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Ultimate shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Northern short-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Parnell’s mustached bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Sandy inland mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- White-bellied yellow bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Ningbing false antechinus bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale