List of extinct animals of Asia
The list of extinct animals of Asia features the animals that have become extinct along the history in the Asian Continent.
Prehistoric extinction
K-t extinction event
Global Holocene/ Anthropocene extinctions
Mammals
- Eurasian Aurochs, Bos primigenius primigenius (Unknown date, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, south Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea)
- Indian Aurochs, Bo
- Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius (around 1500 BC, Wrangel Island)
- Syrian elephant, Elephas maximus asbs (100 BC, Middle East)
- Chinese elephant, Elephas maximus rubridens (15th century BC, 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)
- Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus (8000 BC, Siberia & 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), Turkey, 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)
- Sturdee's Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus sturdeei (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)
- Saudi Gazelle, Gazella saudiya (Saudi Arabia)
- 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)
- Formosan Clouded Leopard, Neofelis nebulosa brachyura (1983, Taiwan)
- Cebu Warty Pig, Sus cebifrons cebifrons (Philippines)
- Japanese Sea Lion, Zalophus japonicus (Japan, South Korea, North Korea)
- Chinese River Dolphin (Baiji), Lipotes vexillifer (2006, Yangtze River, China)
- Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus, Phanourios minutis (Cyprus)
Birds
- Asiatic Ostrich, Struthio asiaticus (1000 BC, Central Asia),
- 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)
- Cyprus Dipper, Cinclus cinclus olympicus 1950 (Cyprus)
Reptiles
- Japanese Gecko, Hemidactylus gomerinus (Japan)
- Snake-faced Lizard, Attocetis lycaon (Indonesia), China)
- Painted Lizard Gecko, Gymarnius temosus (1667, Taiwan)
- Bali Crocodile, Crocodylus codin
- Red-and-yellow Snake, Tricecatus domeli (1234, Cambodia)
Amphibians
Fish
Mollusks
Local extinctions
References
- IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 March 2006.
See also
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