List of extinct animals of Asia
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The list of extinct animals of Asia features the animals that have become extinct along the history in the Asian Continent.
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[edit] Prehistoric extinction
- Sri Lanka lion (Sri Lanka, 37.000 years BP)
- Steppe Wisent (north and central Asia, end of last ice age)
- Cave lion, Panthera leo spelaea (Central Asia and Siberia, end of last ice age)
[edit] Global Holocene/ Anthropocene extinctions
[edit] Mammals
- Eurasian Aurochs, Bos primigenius primigenius (Unknown date, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, south Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea)
- Indian Aurochs, Bos primigenius namadicus (Unknown date, Indian subcontinent)
- Pygmy Mammoth, Mammuthus exilis (around 1500 BC, Wrangel Island)
- Syrian elephant, Elephas maximus asurus (100 BC, Middle East)
- Chinese elephant, Elephas maximus rubridens (15th century, East China)
- Northern Sumatran Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis (Bangladesh, India, survives maybe in Myanmar)
- Hokkaidō Wolf, Canis lupus hattai (1889, North Japan)
- Honshū Wolf, Canis lupus hodophilax (1905, South Japan)
- Schomburgk's Deer, Cervus schomburgki (1938, Southeast Asia)
- Bali Tiger, Panthera tigris balica (1937, Bali island, Indonesia)
- Caspian Tiger, Panthera tigris virgata (1980s, European Russia, Transcaucasia, south Ukraine (possible), Kurdistan, northern Iran, Afghanistan, Russian and Chinese Turkistan, western Mongolia, south Siberia)
- Java Tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica (1980s, Java island, Indonesia)
- Panay Giant Fruit Bat, Acerodon lucifer (Philippines)
- Negros Naked-backed Fruit Bat, Dobsonia chapmani (Philippines)
- Sturdee's Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus sturdeei (Japan)
- Okinawa Flying Fox, Pteropus loochoensis (Japan)
- Syrian Wild Ass, Equus hemionus hemippus (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria)
- Arabian Gazelle, Gazella arabica (possible Saudi Arabia)
- Queen of Sheba's Gazelle, Gazella bilkis (Yemen)
- Steller's Sea Cow, Hydrodamalis gigas (1768, Russian Federation, United States)
- Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat, Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (Indonesia)
- Flores Long-nosed Rat, Paulamys naso (Indonesia)
- Dangs Giant Squirrel, Ratufa indica dealbata (India)
- Flores Cave Rat, Spelaeomys florensis (Indonesia)
- Cebu Warty Pig, Sus cebifrons cebifrons (Philippines)
- Japanese Sea Lion, Zalophus japonicus (Japan, South Korea, North Korea)
- Kamchatka Giant Bear, Ursus isabellinus pruinosus (1920, northeast Siberia)
- Chinese River Dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer (2006, Yangtze River, China)
[edit] Birds
- Arabian Ostrich, Struthio camelus syriacus (1942, Middle East),
- Double-banded Argus, Argusianus bipunctatus (Indonesia, Malaysia)
- Bonin Grosbeak, Chaunoproctus ferreorostris (Japan)
- Ryūkyū Wood Pigeon, Columba jouyi (Japan)
- Bonin Wood Pigeon, Columba versicolor (Japan)
- Spectacled Cormorant or Pallas's Cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus (Russian Federation)
- Bonin Thrush, Zoothera terrestris (Japan)
- Pink-headed Duck, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, but possibly surviving in Myanmar)
[edit] Reptiles
- Yunnan Box Turtle, Cuora yunnanensis (China, maybe rediscovered)
[edit] Amphibians
- Hula Painted Frog, Discoglossus nigriventer (Lake Huleh, Israel)
- Adenomus kandianus (Toad from Sri Lanka)
- Nannophrys guentheri (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus adspersus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus dimbullae (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus eximius (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus extirpo (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus halyi (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus hypomelas (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus leucorhinus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus malcolmsmithi (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus nanus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus nasutus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus oxyrhynchus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus rugatus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus stellatus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus temporalis (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus travancoricus (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus variabilis (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus zal (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Philautus zimmeri (Frog from Sri Lanka)
- Yunnan Lake Newt, Cynops wolterstorffi (China)
[edit] Fish
- Acanthobrama hulensis (Lake Huleh, Israel)
- Cyprinus yilongensis (Freshwater fish from China)
[edit] Molluscs
- Gastrocopta chichijimana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Gastrocopta ogasawarana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Hirasea planulata (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Lamellidea monodonta (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Lamellidea nakadai (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Littoraria flammea (Sea snail from China)
- Trochoidea picardi (Terrestrial snail from Israel)
- Vitrinula chaunax (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Vitrinula chichijimana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
- Vitrinula hahajimana (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
[edit] Extinctions in the wild
[edit] Mammals
- Saudi Gazelle, Gazella saudiya (Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen)
- Scimitar Oryx, Oryx dammah (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara)
- South Chinese Tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (probably, eastern China)
[edit] Reptiles
- Black Soft-shell Turtle, Aspideretes nigricans (Bangladesh)
[edit] Fish
- Red-tailed Shark, Epalzeorhynchos bicolor (Thailand)
[edit] Local extinctions
[edit] Asiatic lion - Panthera leo persica
- Armenia - 300
- Azerbaijan - 10th century
- Israel/Palestine - 12th century
- Pakistan - 1810
- Turkey - late 19th century
- Syria - 1891
- Iraq - 1918
- Saudi Arabia - 1923
- Iran - 1942
- Central India - 1860
[edit] Siberian tiger - Panthera tigris altaica
- South Korea - 1920s
- Mongolia - 1930s or 1940s
[edit] Cheetah
[edit] References
- IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 March 2006.
- Khalaf-von Jaffa, Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher (2007). The Extinction of the Palestinian or Hula Painted Frog (Discoglossus nigriventer, Mendelssohn and Steinitz 1943): The Result of Israeli Drainage of the Lake Hula.Gazelle: The Palestinian Biological Bulletin. Number 62, February 2007. pp. 1-8.
[edit] See also
- List of extinct animals
- List of extinct animals of Africa
- List of extinct animals of Europe
- List of extinct animals of South America
- Extinct birds
