It is hard to guess what a Visored bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Visored bat (Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Visored bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Sphaeronycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 visored bat, (Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum), is a bat species from tropical South America. It is the only species in the genus Sphaeronycteris. Although visored bats have some unique characteristics, they are thought to be most closely related to little white-shouldered bats and wrinkle-faced bats.
Animals of the same family as a Visored bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Gray long-tongued bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Visored bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum:
- Velvety free-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Desert dormouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Greenish yellow bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Eloquent horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Chinese shrew mole bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed dunnart bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Common blossom bat bringing 17 grams to the scale