It is hard to guess what a Vampyriscus nymphaea weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Vampyriscus nymphaea (Vampyressa nymphaea) on average weights 69 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Vampyriscus nymphaea is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Vampyressa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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.
Vampyriscus nymphaea is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, the leaf-nosed bats. It is known commonly as the striped yellow-eared bat. It is native to Central and South America, where it occurs in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Honduras.
Animals of the same family as a Vampyriscus nymphaea
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Greater long-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Hairy big-eared bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser spear-nosed bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Vampyriscus nymphaea
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vampyressa nymphaea:
- Jentink’s flying squirrel bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Oecomys superans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Small hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Forest Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Greater nectar bat bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Oldfield white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale