mammals

List of recently extinct mammals

English or local nameScientific nameRangeLast seen
Dwarf hutiaMesocapromys nanusCuba1937
Zuniga’s dark rice ratMelanomys zunigaePeru1940s
Lake Mackay hare-wallabyLagorchestes asomatusAustralia1940 – 1960
Yavapai Arizona cotton ratSigmodon arizonae jacksoniArizona1916
Desert bettongBettongia anhydraAustralia1930s
Wondiwoi tree-kangarooDendrolagus mayriWandammen PeninsulaRediscovered in 2018
Western black rhinocerosDiceros bicornis longipesCameroon2006
Burrowing bettong (graii)Bettongia lesueur graiiAustralia?
White-footed rabbit-ratConilurus albipesAustralia1845
Christmas island shrewCrocidura trichuraChristmas Island, Australia1990s ?
Large Palau flying foxPteropus pilosusPalau Islands, Caroline Islands1874
Visagie’s golden moleChrysochloris visagieiSouth Africa?
Vietnam mouse-deer Tragulus versicolorVietnamRediscovered in 2019
Samana hutiaPlagiodontia ipnaeumDominican Republic, Haiti?
Gloomy tube-nosed batMurina tenebrosaTsushima Island, Japan1960s
Torre’s cave ratBoromys torreiCuba1500 ?
Anthony’s woodratNeotoma anthonyiIsla Todos Santos1926
Tacoma pocket gopherThomomys mazama tacomensisWashington1962
South-western banded hare-​wallabyLagostrophus fasciatus albipilisAustralia1906
Southern black rhinocerosDiceros bicornis bicornisSouth Africa, Namibiaaround 1850
South China tigerPanthera tigris amoyensisSouth China1990s ?
St. Vincent pygmy rice ratOligoryzomys victusSaint Vincent1870s
Singapore whiskered batMyotis oreiasSingapore1840 ?
Sherman’s pocket gopher Geomys pinetis fontanelusGeorgia1950
Sherman’s short-tailed shrewBlarina shermaniFlorida1955
Little Swan Island hutiaGeocapromys thoracatusLittle Swan Island1955
Saudi gazelleGazella saudiyaArabian Peninsula1980s
Sardinian wild boarSus scrofa meridionalisSardinia, Corsica?
Indefatigable Galápagos mouseNesoryzomys indefessusSanta Cruz Island1934
Zanzibar leopardPanthera pardus adersiSansibarRediscovered in 2018
Island deer mousePeromyscus maniculatus streatoriSan Miguel Island1860s ?
San Martín Island woodrat Neotoma martinensisSan Martín Island1950s
San Felipe hutiaMesocapromys sanfelipensisCuba1978 ?
San Bernardino white-eared pocket mousePerognathus alticolus alticolusCalifonia1934
Insular myotisMyotis insularumSamoa1860s
Santa Lucia giant rice ratMegalomys luciaeSaint Lucia1881
Red-bellied gracile mouse opossumCryptonanus ignitusArgentinia1962 ?
Reed wolf Canis lupus minorBalkan Peninsula1900 ?
Lesser yellow batScotophilus borbonicusMadagascar, RéunionEnd of the 19th century ?
Queen Charlotte Islands caribouRangifer tarandus dawsoniGraham Island1908
Puerto Rican nesophontesNesophontes edithaePuerto Rico1500 ?
Puerto Rican long-nosed batMonophyllus plethodon fraterPuerto Rico1850 ?
Puerto Rican hutiaIsolobodon portoricensisDominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico1500 ?
Puerto Rican flower batPhyllonycteris majorPuerto Rico1850 ?
Puebla deer mousePeromyscus mekisturusPuebla, Mexico1940s
Portuguese ibexCapra pyrenaica lusitanicaPortugal1892
Pallid beach mousePeromyscus polionotus decoloratusFlorida1959
(Viscacha)Lagostomus crassusPeru1500 ?
Dusky flying foxPteropus brunneusAustralia1859
Pemberton’s deer mousePeromyscus pembertoniSan Pedro Nelasco Island1930s
Panay giant fruit batAcerodon luciferPanay1996
Toolache wallabyNotamacropus greyiAustralia1937
WoylieBettongia penicillata penicillataAustralia 1920s
Eastern elkCervus elaphus canadensiCanada1877
North America pumaPuma concolor cougarMaine1938
Arctic reindeerRangifer tarandus eogroenlandicusGreenland1900
Okinawa flying foxPteropus loochoensisOkinawa19th century
Nullarbor dwarf bettongBettongia pusillaAustralia19th century
North-eastern black rhinocerosDiceros bicornis bruciiSomalia, Ethiopia to SudanEarly 20th century
Mongolian ArgaliOvis jubataChina1970s
Heslop’s pygmy hippoChoeropsis liberiensis heslopiNigeria1945 or earlier
Nevis rice ratPennatomys nivalisSt. Kitts, Nevis1930s
Izenhood kangaroo mouseMicrodipodops megacephalus nexusNevada1980s
Newfoundland wolfCanis lupus beothucusNewfoundland1911
Nelson’s rice ratOryzomys nelsoniMaría Madre Island, Nayarit, Mexico1897
Southern bog lemmingSynaptomys cooperi relictusNebraska1968
Musser’s coryphomysCoryphomys musseriTimor1500 ?
Crescent nail-tail wallabyOnychogalea lunataAustralia1956
Merriam’s elkCervus elaphus merriamiUSA (North)1900
Marl bandicootPerameles myosurosAustralia20th century
Martinique muskratMegalomys desmarestiiMartinique1902
Malabar large-spotted civetViverra civettinaIndia1980s
Robert’s lechweKobus leche robertsiSambia20th century
Lord Howe long-eared batNyctophilus howensisLord Howe Island1889
Long-tailed hopping mouseNotomys longicaudatusAustralia1970s
Short-tailed hopping mouseNotomys amplusAustralia1896
Cuban coneyGeocapromys columbianusCuba1500 ?
Lesser stick-nest ratLeporillus apicalisAustralia1933 or 1970s
Western Cuban nesophontesNesophontes micrusCuba1500 ?
Kenya oribiOurebia ourebi kenyaeKenya1925
Kenai Peninsula wolfCanis lupus alcesKenai Peninsula1925
Caucasian mooseAlces alces caucasicusEurope (East), Asia Minor?
Caspian tigerPanthera tigris virgataIran1960s
Carpathian wisentBison bonasus hungarorumCarpathians1790
Cape lionPanthera leo melanochaitusNatal1865
Kansas bog lemmingSynaptomys cooperi paludisKansas1646
California grizzly bearUrsus arctos californicusCalifornia1922
Queen of Sheba’s gazelleGazella bilkisYemen1951
Javan tigerPanthera tigris sondaicaJava1980s
Japanese river otterLutra nipponShikoku1979 ?
Jamaican rice ratOryzomys antillarumJamaica1870s
Angel de la Guarda woodratNeotoma insularisAngel de la Guardia Island, Baja California, Mexico1990s
Mitred horseshoe batRhinolophus mitratusBihar, India1844
Hokkaido wolfCanis lupus hattaiHokkaidō, Sakhalin1889
Marcano’s solenodonSolenodon marcanoiHispaniola1500 or later
Haitian nesophontesNesophontes zamicrusHispaniola1500 ?
Imposter hutiaHexolobodon phenaxDominican Republic, Haiti1500 ?
Gull Island voleMicrotus pennsylvanicus nesophilusGreat Gull Island, Long Island Sund1898
Guam flying foxPteropus tokudaeGuam1968
Guadalcanal ratUromys porculusGuadalcanal1888
Big-eared hopping mouseNotomys macrotisAustralia1840s
Large Samoan flying foxPteropus coxiSamoa1840
New Zealand greater short-tailed batMystacina robustaStewart Island, New Zealand (South Island)1967
Oriente cave rat Boromys offellaCuba1500 ?
Greater Cuban nesophontesNesophontes majorCuba1500 ?
St. Michel nesophontesNesophontes paramicrusHispaniola1500 ?
Gould’s mousePseudomys gouldiiAustraliaRediscovered in 2021
Goff’s southeastern pocket gopherGeomys pinetis goffiFlorida1955
Furnace Canyon hog-nosed skunkConepatus leuconotus figginsiColorado1933
Togo mouseLeimacomys buettneriTogo1890
Florida giant ratSolomys salamonisSalomonen20th century
Vespucci’s rodentNoronhomys vespucciiFernando de Noronha?
Emma’s giant ratUromys emmaeOwi Island, Indonesia1940s
De Winton’s golden moleCryptochloris wintoniSouth AfricaRediscovered in 2023
Darling Daowns hopping mouseNotomys mordaxAustralia1840s
Indian giant squirrelRatufa indica dealbataIndia1945
Bunker’s woodratNeotoma bunkeriCoronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico1932
South-western black rhinocerosDiceros bicornis chobiensisNamibia?
Chihuahuan meadow voleMicrotus pennsylvanicus chihuahuensisMexico1998
Chadwick beach cotton mousePeromyscus gossypinus restrictusFlorida1938
Seram bandicootRhynchomeles prattorumSeram1920s
Cebu warty pigSus cebifrons cebifronsCebu2000
Cascade mountain wolfCanis lupus fuscusUSA1940
Capricorn rabbit-ratConilurus capricornensisAustralia1788
Candango mouseJuscelinomys candangoBrazil1960s
Buhler’s coryphomysCoryphomys buehleriTimor1500 ?
Great hopping mouseNotomys robustusAustralia19th century
Blue-gray mousePseudomys glaucusAustralia1956
Caucasian wisentBison bonasus caucasicusCaucasus1927
Montane hutiaIsolobodon montanusDominican Republic, Haiti1500 ?
Sundarbans rhinocerosRhinoceros sondaicus inermisBangladesh, Assam, Myanmar1910
Barbuda giant rice ratMegalomys audreyaeBarbuda1600 ?
Barbados raccoonProcyon lotor gloveralleniBarbados1964
Barbados rice ratMegalomys georginaeBarbados19th century
Bernard’s wolfCanis lupus bernardiCanada1918
Liverpool Plains striped bandicootPerameles fasciataAustralia1922
Ethiopian amphibious ratNilopegamys plumbeusEthiopia1927
Atalaye nesophontesNesophontes hypomicrusHispaniola1500 ?
Ash Meadows montane voleMicrotus montanus nevadensisNevada1933
Aru flying foxPteropus aruensisAru Islands, Indonesia1990s ?
Camp Verde cotton ratSigmodon arizonae arizonaeArizona1932
Anatolian boarSus scrofa libycusTurkey, Anatolia?
Alcorn’s pocket gopherPappogeomys alcorniMexico1998 ?
Glacier Bay water shrew Sorex alaskanusAlaska1970s
Northern Sumatran rhinocerosDicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotisBangladesh, India, Myanmar20th century
Sicilian wolfCanis lupus cristaldiiSicily1928 or later
Big Thicket hog-nosed skunkConepatus leuconotus telmalestesTexas1905
Sea minkNeogale macrodonUSA (East Coast)1860
Japanese sea lionZalophus japonicusSea of Japan (Japan, Korea, Russia)1951 ?
Bubal hartebeestAlcelaphus buselaphus buselaphusNorth Africa1923
Formosan clouded leopardNeofelis nebulosaTaiwan1983
Maclear’s ratRattus macleariChristmas Island, Australia1904
Mexican grizzly bearUrsus arctos horribilisMexico1964
Pyrenean ibexCapra pyrenaica pyrenaicaSpain, France, Andorra2000
King genetGenetta poensisIvory Coast, Congo, Liberia, Ghana, Bioko1946
Bory’s white batBoryptera albaRéunion1801
Bali tigerPanthera tigris sondaica (balica)Bali1940s
Bramble Cay melomysMelomys rubicolaBramble Cay2009
Christmas Island pipistrellePipistrellus murrayiChristmas Island, Australia2009
Argentinean warrahDusicyon avusSouth America17th or 20th century
Falkland Islands wolfDusicyon australisFalkland Islands1876
Insular cave ratHeteropsomys insulansPuerto Rico, Vieques1500 ?
AurochsBos primigeniusEurope, Asia, North Africa, India1627
BluebuckHippotragus leucophaeusSouth Africa1799 or 1800
Sardinian pikaProlagus sardusCorsica, Sardinia1774 ?
Desert bandicootPerameles eremianaAustralia1943
Montane monkey-faced batPteralopex pulchraGuadalcanal1990s ?
KoupreyBos sauveliCambodia, Laos, Vietnam1982
Broad-faced potorooPotorous platyopsAustralia1875
Badlands bishorn sheepOvis canadensis auduboniNorth America1925
Darwin’s Galápagos mouseNesoryzomys darwiniSanta Cruz1930
Bola Batu babirusaBabyrousa bolabatuensisSulawesi?
Desert rat-kangarooCaloprymnus campestrisAustralia1935
Galápagos giant ratMegaoryzomys curioiSanta Cruz, Isabela20th century
Vietnamese rhinocerosRhinoceros sondaicus annamiticusVietnam2009
Atlas bearUrsus arctos crowtheriNorth Africa1869
Small Samoan flying foxPteropus allenorumSamoa1856
Bulldog ratRattus nativitatisChristmas Island, Australia1903
Giant fossaCryptoprocta speleaMadagascar1658 ?
Small Mauritian flying foxPteropus subnigerRéunion, Mauritius1864
Honshu wolfCanis lupus hodophilaxHonshū1905
Lemerle’s hippopotamusHippopotamus lemerleiMadagascar1500 ?
Shomburgk’s deerRucervus schomburgkiThailand1938
Jamaican monkeyXenothrix mcgregoriJamaica18th century
Cape warthogPhacochoerus aethiopicus aethiopicusSouth Africa1870s
Emperor ratUromys imperatorGuadalcanal1888
Eastern hare-wallabyLagorchestes leporidesAustralia1890
Pig-footed bandicootChaeropus ecaudatusAustralia1907
Caribbean monk sealMonachus tropicalisCaribbean1952
Barbary lionPanthera leo leoNorth Africa1942
Telefomin cuscusPhalanger matanimPapua New Guinea1998 ?
Giant vampire bat Desmodus draculaeCentral and South America1820 ?
Yunnan lar gibbonHylobates lar yunnanensisChina2000
Steller’s sea cowHydrodamalis gigasBering Sea1768
QuaggaEquus quagga quaggaAfrica (South)1883
Lesser bilbyMacrotis leucuraAustralia1960s
Syrian wild assEquus hemionus hemippusNorth Africa1929
Florida red wolfCanis rufus floridianusUSA1910
Hispaniolan edible ratBrotomys voratusHispaniola1546
Sturdee’s pipistrellePipistrellus sturdeeiHaha-jima Island, JapanEnd of the 19th century
Ilin Island cloudrunnerCrateromys paulusIlin Island1653
ThylacineThylacinus cynocephalusTasmania1936
Red gazelleEudorcas rufinaAlgeria, Morocco1894
BaijiLipotes vexilliferChina2002
South-eastern Spanish wolfCanis lupus deitanusSpain1930s
California gray wolfCanis lupus furlongiCalifornia?
Mogollon mountain wolfCanis lupus mogollonensisTexas, Mexico?
Texas Ggrey wolfCanis lupus monstrabilisTexas, Mexico?
Southern Rocky Mountain wolfCanis lupus youngiUSA1940
Hidden Forest Uinta chipmunkTamias umbrinus nevadensisNevada1960
Large sloth lemur Palaeopropithecus ingensMadagascar1620 ?
Twisted-toothed mouseQuemisia gravisDominican Republic, Haiti1550
(Rice rat)Ekbletomys hypenemusAntigua, Barbuda1500 or later
Butterfly bandicootPerameles papillonAustralia1920 to 1960
South-eastern striped bandicootPerameles notinaAustralia?
Marysville California kangaroo ratDipodomys californicus eximiusCalifornia1983
Dolphin Island Chisel-toothed kangaroo ratDipodomys microps russeolusDolphin Island1940s
Fish spring pocket gopherThomomys bottae abstrususNevada1933
San Antonio pocket gopherThomomys bottae curtatusNevada1931
Harquahala Southern pocket gopher Thomomys bottae subsimilisArizona1917
Louie’s Western pocket gopherThomomys mazama louieiWashington1956
San Cristóbal Island rice ratAegialomys galapagoensis galapagoensisSan Cristóbal1835
Madargascan dwarf hippoptamusHippopotamus madagascariensisMadagascar?
Cuban fig-eating batPhyllops vetusKuba, Île des Pins1750 ?
Lemke’s hutiaRhizoplagiodontia lemkeiHaiti?
Long-eared mousePseudomys auritusAustralia19th century
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