List of extinct mammals

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A large number of prehistoric mammals are extinct, e.g. 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.

Contents 1 Marsupials 2 Edentates 3 Sirenians 4 Rodents 5 Lagomorphs 6 Soricimorphs 7 Bats 8 Cetaceans 9 Artiodactyls 10 Carnivores 11 Perissodactyls 12 See also

[edit] Marsupials

• Broad-faced Potoroo (1875, Australia)
• Eastern Hare Wallaby (1890, Australia)
• Crescent Nailtail Wallaby (1956, Australia)
• Toolache Wallaby (1943, Australia)
• Lesser Bilby (1950s, Australia)
• Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby (1932, Australia)^{[citation needed]}
• Desert Rat-kangaroo (1935, Australia)
• Thylacine (1936, Tasmania)
• Desert Bandicoot (1943, Australia)
• Pig-footed Bandicoot (1950s, Australia)

[edit] Edentates

• Tree Armadillo (1875, Brazil)^{[citation needed]}
• Bennet's Anteater (1993)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Sirenians

• Steller's Sea Cow (1768), Commander Islands

[edit] Rodents

• Flores Cave Rat (Indonesia)
• Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat (Indonesia)
• Cuban Coney (1500, Cuba)^{[citation needed]}
• Big-eared Hopping Mouse (1843, Australia)
• Darling Downs Hopping Mouse (1846, Australia)
• White-footed Rabbit-rat (1870s, Australia)
• Short-tailed Hopping Mouse (1896, Australia)
• Bulldog Rat (1903, Christmas Island)
• Maclear's Rat (1903, Christmas Island)
• Guadalcanal Rat (1899, Solomon Islands)
• Long-Tailed Hopping Mouse (1901, Australia)
• Martinique Musk Rat (1903, Martinique)^{[citation needed]}
• Darwin's Galapagos Mouse (1930, Galapagos Islands)^{[citation needed]}
• Gould's Mouse (1930, Australia)
• Lesser Stick Nest Rat (1933, Australia)
• Indefatigable Galapagos Mouse (1934, Galapagos Islands)^{[citation needed]}
• Emperor Rat (1960s Solomon Islands)
• Nelson's Rice Rat (1897, Islas Marias)^{[citation needed]}
• Hispaniolan Edible Rat (?, Hispaniola)^{[citation needed]}
• Oriente Cave Rat (?, Cuba)^{[citation needed]}
• Torre's Cave Rat (?, Cuba)^{[citation needed]}
• Imposter Hutia (?, Hispaniola)^{[citation needed]}
• Montane Hutia (?, Hispaniola)^{[citation needed]}
• Little Swan Island hutia (1955, Swan Islands)
• St Lucy Giant Rice Rat (1852), Saint Lucia)^{[citation needed]}
• Martinique Giant Rice Rat (1902), Martinique)^{[citation needed]}
• Pemberton's Deer Mouse (1931), San Pedro Island)^{[citation needed]}
• Ilin Island Cloudrunner (1953) Ilin Island)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Lagomorphs

• Sardinian Pika (1774, Sardinia)
• Corsican Pika (1800s, France)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Soricimorphs

• Marcano's Solenodon (?, Hispaniola)^{[citation needed]}
• Christmas Island Shrew (1985, Christmas Island) (officially critically endangered, but has not been reliably seen since 1985)
• Balearic Shrew (Europe)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Bats

• Puerto Rican Flower Bat (Puerto Rico)^{[citation needed]}
• Lesser Mascarene Flying Fox (1864, Reunion, Mauritius)
• Large Palau Flying Fox (1874, Palau)
• Panay Giant Fruit Bat (1892, Philippines)^{[citation needed]}
• Nendo Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (1907, Solomon Islands)
• Guam Flying Fox (1968, Guam)
• New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat (1988, New Zealand)
• Dusky Flying Fox (1870) Percy Island)^{[citation needed]}
• Sturdee's Pipistrelle (2000) Japan)^{[citation needed]}
• Lord Howe Long-eared Bat (1996, Australia)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cetaceans

• Baiji (2006, China) (officially listed as critically endangered, possibly extinct)

[edit] Artiodactyls

• Aurochs (1627, Poland)
• Bluebuck (1799, South Africa)
• Arabian Gazelle (1825, Farasan Islands)^{[citation needed]}
• Red Gazelle (1894, Algeria)
• Schomburgk's Deer (1932, Thailand)
• Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (1951, Yemen)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Carnivores

• Falkland Island Fox (1876, Falkland Islands)
• Sea Mink (1894, Northeastern North America)
• Caribbean Monk Seal (1952, Jamaica)
• Japanese Sea Lion (1950s, Japan)
• Javan Tiger^{[citation needed]}
• Bali Tiger^{[citation needed]}
• Barbary Lion (possibly extinct in the wild)^{[citation needed]}
• Japanese Wolf^{[citation needed]}
• Mexican Grizzly^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Perissodactyls

• Western Black Rhinoceros (2006, West Africa)
• Quagga (1883, South Africa)
• Tarpan (1919, Eurasia)
• Syrian Wild Ass (1928, Syria)

[edit] See also

• Extinct birds
• List of extinct animals