It is hard to guess what a Parnell’s mustached bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Parnell’s mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Parnell’s mustached bat is from the family Mormoopidae (genus: Pteronotus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Parnell’s mustached bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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.
Parnell’s mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii) is an insectivorous bat native to North, Central and South America. This bat species ranges from southern Sonora, Mexico, south to Brazil. It has a wider historical range; fossil specimens have been collected on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas.
Animals of the same family as a Parnell’s mustached bat
We found other animals of the Mormoopidae family:
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Davy’s naked-backed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Ghost-faced bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Big naked-backed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Sooty mustached bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Parnell’s mustached bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteronotus parnellii:
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Railer bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- New Holland mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Tonatia carrikeri bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-nosed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui harvest mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Parnell’s mustached bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Parnell’s mustached bat:
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Horsfield’s shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)