List of extinct mammals
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- A large number of prehistoric mammals are extinct, such as Megafauna. See List of prehistoric mammals.
This is an incomplete list of historically known extinct mammals, their dates of extinction, and former range. Mammals included are organisms which have been described by science, but which have subsequently become extinct. Many of these animals have become extinct as a result of human hunting, for food or sport, or through the destruction of habitat.
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[edit] Marsupials
- Broad-faced Potoroo (1875, Australia)
- Eastern Hare Wallaby (1890, Australia)
- Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby (1932, Australia) [1]
- Desert Rat-kangaroo (1935, Australia)
- Thylacine (1936, Tasmania, Australia)
- Toolache Wallaby (1943, Australia)
- Desert Bandicoot (1943, Australia)
- Lesser Bilby (1950s, Australia)
- Pig-footed Bandicoot (1950s, Australia)
- Crescent Nailtail Wallaby (1956, Australia)
- Red-bellied Gracile Opossum (1962, Argentina)
[edit] Sirenians
- Steller's Sea Cow (1768), Commander Islands
[edit] Rodents
- Oriente Cave Rat (?, Cuba) [2]
- Torre's Cave Rat (?, Cuba)[3]
- Imposter Hutia (?, Hispaniola) [4]
- Montane Hutia (?, Hispaniola) [5]
- Lagostomus crassus (?, Peru) [6]
- Megaoryzomys curioi (?, Galápagos Islands) [7]
- Flores Cave Rat (1500, Indonesia)
- Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat (1500, Indonesia)
- Cuban Coney (1500, Cuba) [8]
- Hispaniolan Edible Rat (~1546, Hispaniola)[9]
- Puerto Rican Hutia (?, Puerto Rico) [10]
- Big-eared Hopping Mouse (1843, Australia)
- Darling Downs Hopping Mouse (1846, Australia)
- White-footed Rabbit-rat (1870s, Australia)
- St Lucy Giant Rice Rat (1881), Saint Lucia) [11]
- Short-tailed Hopping Mouse (1896, Australia)
- Nelson's Rice Rat (1897, Islas Marias) [12]
- Guadalcanal Rat (1899, Solomon Islands)
- Long-tailed Hopping Mouse (1901, Australia)
- Martinique Giant Rice Rat (1902), Martinique) [13]
- Bulldog Rat (1903, Christmas Island)
- Maclear's Rat (1903, Christmas Island)
- Martinique muskrat (1903, Martinique) [14]
- Darwin's Galapagos Mouse (1930, Galapagos Islands)[15]
- Gould's Mouse (1930, Australia)
- Pemberton's Deer Mouse (1931), San Pedro Island[disambiguation needed
]) [16] - Lesser Stick Nest Rat (1933, Australia)
- Indefatigable Galapagos Mouse (1934, Galapagos Islands) [17]
- Chadwick Beach Cotton Mouse (1938, Florida)
- Ilin Island Cloudrunner (1953) Ilin Island) [18]
- Little Swan Island hutia (1955, Swan Islands)
- Blue-Gray Mouse (1956) Australia) [19]
- Pallid Beach Mouse (1959, Florida)
- Emperor Rat (1960s, Solomon Islands)
[edit] Lagomorphs
- Sardinian Pika (1774, Sardinia) [20]
[edit] Proboscids
[edit] Soricimorphs
- Marcano's Solenodon (?, Hispaniola) [21]
- Christmas Island Shrew (1985, Christmas Island) (officially critically endangered, but has not been reliably seen since 1985) [22]
- Balearic Shrew (Europe) [23]
- Tule Shrew (Baja California). Only known by the four type specimens collected in 1905
[edit] Bats
- Puerto Rican Flower Bat (Puerto Rico) [24]
- Lesser Mascarene Flying Fox (1864, Réunion, Mauritius)
- Guam Flying Fox (1968, Guam)
- Dusky Flying Fox (1870, Percy Island) [25]
- Large Palau Flying Fox (1874, Palau)
- Panay Giant Fruit Bat (1892, Philippines) [26]
- Nendo Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (1907, Solomon Islands)
- New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat (1988, New Zealand)
- Lord Howe Long-eared Bat (1996, Australia) [27]
- Sturdee's Pipistrelle (2000, Japan) [28]
[edit] Cetaceans
- Baiji (2006, China) (officially listed as functionally extinct; it is possible that a few aging individuals still survive)
[edit] Artiodactyls
- Aurochs (1627, Poland)
- Caucasian Wisent (1927, Caucasus)
- Carpathian Wisent (1790, Carpathian Mountains)
- Bluebuck (1799, South Africa)
- Bubal Hartebeest (1923, North Africa) [29]
- Arabian Gazelle (1825, Farasan Islands) [30]
- Red Gazelle (1894, Algeria)
- Schomburgk's Deer (1932, Thailand)
- Caucasian Moose (mid-19th century, Caucasus Mountains)
- Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (1951, Yemen) [31]
- Saudi Gazelle (Declared extinct in 2008, but not seen decades before that; Saudi Arabia)
- Pyrenean Ibex (2000, Pyrenees)
[edit] Carnivores
- Falkland Island Wolf (1876, Falkland Islands)
- Sea Mink (1894, Northeastern North America)
- Japanese Sea Lion (1950s, Japan)
- Caribbean Monk Seal (1952, Jamaica)
Subspecies
- Barbary Lion (1922, Atlas Mountains)
- Japanese Wolf[disambiguation needed ] (1930s, Japan)
- Cape Lion
- Bali Tiger (1940s, Bali) [32]
- Mexican grizzly bear (1960s, Mexico)
- Caspian Tiger (1970s, Tajikistan) [33]
- Javan Tiger (1976, Java) (possibly still in existence due to a villager's report.)[34]
- Eastern Cougar (2011, Eastern United States)
[edit] Perissodactyls
Subspecies
- Quagga (1883, South Africa)
- Tarpan (1919, Eurasia)
- Syrian wild ass (1928, Syria)
- Western Black Rhinoceros (2011, West Africa)[35]
[edit] See also
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