It is hard to guess what a Scully’s tube-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Scully’s tube-nosed bat (Murina tubinaris) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Scully’s tube-nosed bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Murina). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Scully’s tube-nosed bats have 1 babies per litter.
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.
Scully’s tube-Nosed bat (Murina tubinaris) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It can be found in the following countries: India, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, and Viet Nam.Members of the ashy-gray tube-nosed bat species were formerly classified as Scully’s bats.
Animals of the same family as a Scully’s tube-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Zulu serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Himalayan whiskered bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Schreber’s yellow bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Brown long-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Welwitsch’s bat with a weight of 15 grams
- White-winged serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Eptesicus demissus with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Scully’s tube-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Murina tubinaris:
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Black-winged little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Stoliczka’s trident bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Jones’s roundleaf bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Spix’s disk-winged bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Scully’s tube-nosed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Scully’s tube-nosed bat: