List of extinct mammals
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[edit] Prehistoric extinctions
A large number of historical orders are extinct, e.g. Megafauna. See List of prehistoric mammals.
[edit] Common Era
This is an incomplete list of extinct mammals. Extinct means that the species is no longer living. The fact that some of these animal species have become extinct is because of hunting the species to extinction or destroying their habitat comepletely. The following is a list of animals that have become extinct.
[edit] Marsupials
- Broad-faced Potoroo (1875, Australia)
- Eastern Hare Wallaby (1890, Australia)
- Crescent Nailtail Wallaby (1960s, Australia)
- Toolache Wallaby (1924, Australia)
- Lesser Bilby (1931, Australia)
- Central Hare-Wallaby (1932, Australia)
- Desert Rat-kangaroo (1935, Australia)
- Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger (1936, Australia)
- Desert Bandicoot (1943, Australia)
- Pig-footed Bandicoot (1950s, Australia)
[edit] Rodents
- Flores Cave Rat (Indonesia)
- Verhoevan's Giant Tree Rat (Indonesia)
- Cuban Coney (1500, Cuba)
- Big-eared Hopping Mouse (1843, Australia)
- Darling Downs Hopping Mouse (1846, Australia)
- White-footed Tree-rat (1870s, Australia)
- Short-tailed Hopping Mouse (1896, Australia)
- Guadalcanal Rat (1899, Solomon Islands)
- Long-Tailed Hopping Mouse (1901, Australia)
- Martinique Musk Rat (1903, Martinique)
- Darwin's Galapagos Mouse (1930, Galapagos)
- Gould's Mouse (1930, Australia)
- Lesser Stick Nest Rat (1933, Australia)
- Indefatigable Galapagos Mouse (1934, Galapagos)
- Dang's Giant Squirrel (1940, India)
- Kansas Bog Lemming (1946, US)
- Emperor Rat (1960s Solomon Islands)
- Nebraska Bog Lemming (1968, US)
- Nelson's Rice Rat (1897, Mexico)
- Hispaniolan Edible Rat (1994, Hispaniola)
- Oriente Cave Rat (1994, Cuba)
- Torre's Cave Rat (1994, Cuba)
- Imposter Hutia (1996, Hispaniola)
- Montane Hutia (1996, Hispaniola)
- Swan Island Hutia (1996, Honduras)
[edit] Lagomorphs
- Sardinian Pika (1774, Sardinia)
[edit] Bats
- Puerto Rican Flower Bat (Puerto Rico)
- Lesser Mascarene Flying Fox (1864, Reunion, Mauritius)
- Large Palau Flying Fox (1874, Palau)
- Panay Giant Fruit Bat (1892, Philippines)
- Nendo Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (1907, Solomon Islands)
- Sturdee's Pipistrelle (1915, Japan)
- Guam Flying Fox (1968, Guam)
- New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat (1988, New Zealand)
[edit] Primates
- Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (1978, Ghana)(Extinction under investigation)
- Jamaican Monkey
- Cuban Monkey
- Hispanolan Monkey
[edit] Ungulates
- Aurochs (1627, Poland)
- Blue Antelope (1799)
- Arabian Gazelle (1996)
- Tarpan (1880, Poland)
- Eastern elk, (1880, USA)
- Quagga (1883)
- Portuguese Ibex (1892, Portugal)
- Red Gazelle (1894, Algeria)
- Cape Warthog (1900)
- Merriam's elk, (1906, USA)
- Bubal Hartebeest (1923, Algeria)
- Caucasian Wisent (1926, Russia)
- Syrian Wild Ass (1927, Syria)
- Schomburgk's Deer (1932, Thailand)
- Queen Charlotte caribou, (1935, Canada)
- Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (1951, Yemen)
- Roberts' Lechwe (1994, Zambia)
- Kenya Oribi (1996, Kenya)
- Pyrenean Ibex (2000, Spain)
[edit] Carnivores
- Atlas Bear (1840s)
- Cape Lion (1858, South Africa)
- Falkland Island Fox (1876, Falkland Islands)
- Barbary Lion (1922)
- Golden bear (1925, northern USA)
- Wisconsin cougar (1925, north central USA)
- Caspian Tiger (1959, Iran)
- Bali Tiger (1937, Indonesia)
- Javan Tiger (1979, Indonesia)
- Sea Mink (1894, west coasts of USA and Canada)
[edit] Marine Mammals
- Steller's Sea Cow, (1768, USA)
- Caribbean Monk Seal (1952)
- Japanese Sea Lion (1950s, Japan)
- Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji (2006, China)
[edit] Endangered Species
See: endangered species
[edit] See also
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