It is hard to guess what a Riparian myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Riparian myotis (Myotis riparius) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Riparian myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 meter (16′ 9″).
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 riparian myotis (Myotis riparius), is a vesper bat species from South and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Riparian myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Mexican big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Chinese pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Tricolored bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Myotis bocagei with a weight of 7 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Hairy-faced bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Greenish yellow bat with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Riparian myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis riparius:
- Dent’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Delany’s mouse bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Rusty pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Black-winged little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least dwarf shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Brown tube-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Percival’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale