List of endangered animals in India

Critically endangered species in India According to the Red Data Book of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), there are 47 critically endangered species in India (as of 5 September 2011).^[1]

The Red List of 2012 was released at the Rio +20 Earth Summit. It contains 132 species of plants and animals in India listed as critically endangered.^[2][3][4]

Critically endangered

Birds

• White-bellied heron (Ardea insignis)
• Great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps)
• Forest owlet (Athene blewitti)
• Baer's pochard (Aythya baeri)
• Spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus)
• Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus)
• White-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
• Indian vulture (Gyps indicus)
• Slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris)
• Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis)
• Himalayan quail (Ophrysia superciliosa)
• Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus)
• Pink-headed duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea)
• Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
• Sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
• Bugun liocichla (Liocichla bugunorum)

Fish

• Knifetooth sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata)
• Pondicherry shark (Carcharhinus hemiodon)
• Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus)
• Deccan labeo (Labeo potail)
• Largetooth sawfish (Pristis microdon)
• Longcomb sawfish (Pristis zijsron)

Reptiles and amphibians

• Northern river terrapin (Batagur baska)
• Red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga)
• Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
• Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
• Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)
• Ghats wart frog (Fejervarya murthii)
• Gundia Indian frog (Indirana gundia)
• Toad-skinned frog (Indirana phrynoderma)
• Charles Darwin's frog (Ingerana charlesdarwini)
• Rao's torrent frog (Micrixalus kottigeharensis)
• Amboli bush frog (Pseudophilautus amboli)
• White-spotted bush frog (Raorchestes chalazodes)
• Griet bush frog (Raorchestes griet)
• Munnar bush frog (Raorchestes munnarensis)
• Ponmudi bush frog (Raorchestes ponmudi)
• Sacred Grove bush frog (Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus)
• Shillong bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes shillongensis)
• Anaimalai flying frog (Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus)
• Jeypore Indian Gecko (Geckoella jeyporensis)

Mammals

• Namdapha flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi)
• Himalayan wolf ("Canis himalayensis")
• Andaman Shrew (Crocidura andamanensis)
• Jenkins' shrew (Crocidura jenkinsi)
• Nicobar shrew (Crocidura nicobarica)
• Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)
• Kondana soft-furred rat (Millardia kondana)
• Pygmy hog (Porcula salvania)
• Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
• Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina)
• Elvira Rat (Cremnomys elvira)

Endangered

Other species listed by the IUCN As of 2012:^[5]

Fish

• Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus)
• Red Line Torpedo Barb (Sahyadria denisonii)

Birds

• Narcondam hornbill (Rhyticeros narcondami)

Reptiles

• Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis)
• Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

Mammals

• Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
• Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
• Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
• Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
• Banteng (Bos javanicus)
• Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii)
• Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
• Central Kashmir vole (Alticola montosa)
• Dhole (Cuon alpinus)
• Dugong (Dugong dugon)
• Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
• Four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis)
• Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei)
• Gaur (Bos gaurus)
• Hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus)
• Hoolock gibbons (Hoolock spp.)
• Indian wild ass (Equus hemionus khur)
• Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)
• Markhor (Capra falconeri)
• Mandelli's mouse-eared bat (Myotis sicarius)
• Marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata)
• Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii)
• Nicobar flying fox (Pteropus faunulus)
• Nilgiri langur (Trachypithecus johnii)
• Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius)
• Nicobar treeshrew (Tupaia nicobarica)
• Palm rat (Rattus palmarum)
• Red panda (Ailurus fulgens)
• Red goral (Naemorhedus baileyi)
• Rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus)
• Snow leopard (Uncia uncia)
• Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)
• Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
• Stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides)
• Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)
• Servant mouse (Mus famulus)
• Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
• Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)
• Swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii)
• Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
• Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii)
• White-bellied musk deer (Moschus leucogaster)
• Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
• Wild goat (Capra aegagrus)
• Woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus)
• Yak (Bos grunniens)

Threatened

Listed by the IUCN As of 2012:^[6]

See also

• Fauna of India
• Mammals of India
• Endangered mammals of India

References

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