List of extinct mammals
- 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.
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)
Sirenians
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) [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)
Lagomorphs
Proboscids
Soricimorphs
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]
Cetaceans
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)
Carnivores
Subspecies
Perissodactyls
Subspecies
See also
References