You have asked a question that is very wide open, because
there are some very tiny animals among the invertebrate species (insects, corals,
roundowrms, etc.). I think you were probably hoping for vertebrate animal answers
however.
Among mammals, the pygmy shrew (Suncus
erruscus) and the Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thong
longyai) are the smallest, at 1.5 and 1.6 grams respectively. The smallest
bird is the Bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenea), which weighs in at
1.6 grams and is easily mistaken for a bumblebee when in flight. The Dwarf pygmy goby
(Trimmatam nanus), at 1.5 grams, is the smallest
fish.
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