This is a list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [a] and continues to the present day. [1]
This list includes the Asian continent and its surrounding islands, including Cyprus. The three Transcaucasian republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are included in the List of European species extinct in the Holocene, even though their territory may fall partially or fully in Asia depending on the definition of Europe considered. Species from Western New Guinea (Indonesia), the Aru Islands (Indonesia), and Christmas Island (Australia) are listed in List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene.
Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information.
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Syrian elephant | Elephas maximus asurus | Mesopotamia | Archaeological evidence and historical records imply an extinction caused by hunting and deforestation in the 8th century BCE, with war elephants from the 3rd century BCE onward being imports from South Asia. However, the lack of evidence of Asian elephants in the Near East between 200,000 and 3,500 years ago has led some authors to propose that Bronze Age elephants were actually introduced by people to provide themselves with exotic game and ivory. If true, this would invalidate the subspecies E. m. asurus. [2] | |
Javan elephant | Elephas maximus sondaicus | Java, Indonesia | Introduced to Sulu in the Philippines in the 14th century, before its extinction in Java; survived in the former until its extermination in 1850. However, the extant Bornean elephant has been suggested to have originated from Sulu stock and not be native to the island. If true, this would make the subspecies E. m. sondaicus synonymous with E. m. borneensis and not globally extinct. [3] | |
Woolly mammoth | Mammuthus primigenius | Northern Eurasia and North America | Most recent remains in Wrangel Island, Russia dated to 1795-1675 BCE. [4] | |
Cyprus dwarf elephant | Palaeoloxodon cypriotes | Cyprus | Most recent remains dated to 10699-7299 BCE. [5] | |
Asian straight-tusked elephant | Palaeoloxodon namadicus | South and East Asia | The date 7330-6250 BCE was obtained from carbonaceous clay near Palaeoloxodon remains in the Baneta Formation of the Narmada Valley, India, suggesting survival into the Holocene, though no direct datation was taken from the bones. [6] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Steller's sea cow | Hydrodamalis gigas | Bering Sea | The last population was discovered in the Commander Islands in 1741 and heavily hunted for meat and leather until it disappeared by 1768. The hunting of sea otters leading to a proliferation of Strongylocentrotus sea urchins that ate the kelp that the sea cows depended on has been suggested as an additional cause. [7] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Don hare | Lepus timidus tanaiticus [8] | Russia | Gradually replaced by the extant mountain hare south to north until becoming extinct during the Subboreal, 3050-550 BCE. [9] |
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Alor Island giant rat | Alormys aplini | Alor Island, Indonesia | Most recent remains at Tabubung 4 dated to 62 BCE - 87 CE. The extinction coincides with a period of aridification, deforestation, and extinction of other giant rat species in the island. [10] | |
Carpomys dakal | Luzon, Philippines | Most recent remains dated to 2050-50 BCE. Probably disappeared due to increased aridity and deforestation. [11] | ||
Buhler's coryphomys | Coryphomys buehleri | Timor | Most recent remains dated to around 50 BCE. [12] | |
Timor giant rat | Coryphomys musseri | Timor | Most recent remains dated to around 50 BCE. [12] | |
Crateromys ballik | Luzon, Philippines | Most recent remains dated to 2050-50 BCE. Probably disappeared due to increased aridity and deforestation. [11] | ||
Miyako long-tailed rat | Diplothrix miyakoensis | Miyako Island, Ryukyu, Japan | Most recent remains dated to around 9050-8050 BCE. [12] | |
Hooijer's giant rat | Hooijeromys nusantenggara | Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia | Most recent remains dated to around 1050 BCE. [12] | |
Milimonggamys juliae | Sumba Island, Indonesia | Most recent remains dated to 54-222 CE. [12] | ||
Niviventer sp. | Ishigaki Island, Japan | Most recent remains dated to 2050-50 BCE. [12] | ||
Verhoeven's giant tree rat | Papagomys theodorverhoeveni | Flores, Indonesia | Most recent remains to around 1050 BCE. [12] | |
Raksasamys tikusbesar | Sumba Island, Indonesia | Most recent remains dated to 1935-1700 BCE. [12] | ||
Flores cave rat | Spelaeomys florensis | Flores, Indonesia | Most recent remains dated to the Holocene. [13] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Ilin Island cloudrunner | Crateromys paulus | Mindoro or Ilin Island, Philippines | Only known from one specimen collected in 1953, generally believed to be from Ilin Island but this is not certain, and could be Mindoro or another nearby location. Later searches in Ilin and Mindoro repeatedly failed to find evidence of this species. If native to Ilin, it could have been threatened by deforestation as the island has no primary forest left in the present. [14] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Mainland orangutan | Pongo sp. | Southern China and Indochina | Holocene remains are known from China, Vietnam, Laos, [15] [16] and possibly Cambodia, [17] while the existence of an indigenous, onomatopoeic name in Vietnam (Duoi U’Oi) and indigenous folklore in Peninsular Malaysia suggest survival into historical times. [15] It possibly disappeared as a result of hunting and habitat destruction for agriculture, though evidence is scarce. [16] |
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Imperial gibbon | Junzi imperialis | Shaanxi, China? | Known only from an incomplete skull found in the tomb of Lady Xia, grandmother of Qin Shi Huang, who died around 240 BCE. Possibly declined due to deforestation and capture of individuals to become pets. [18] |
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Panay golden-crowned flying fox | Population of the giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) | Panay, Philippines | Extinct population named as a distinct species (A. lucifer) in the 19th century, [19] but later included in A. jubatus. [20] |
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Gloomy tube-nosed bat | Murina tenebrosa | Tsushima and possibly Yakushima, Japan | Last collected in 1962. Suggested as a possible synonym for the Ussuri tube-nosed bat (M. ussuriensis). [21] |
Sturdee's pipistrelle | Pipistrellus sturdeei | Haha-jima, Bonin Islands, Japan | Only known from the type specimen collected in 1889. [22] |
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Formosan clouded leopard | Population of the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) | Taiwan | Last confirmed record in 1983. [23] Though named as a subspecies on the basis of a stuffed specimen in 1862 (N. n. brachyura), later morphological and genetic studies invalidate this distinction. [24] | |
Bali tiger | Population of the Sunda Island tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) | Bali, Indonesia | Last confirmed individual killed in 1937. [25] Named as a separate subspecies in 1912 (P. t. balica), but later included in P. t. sondaica on genetic grounds. [24] | |
Bornean tiger | Population of the Sunda Island tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) | Borneo and Palawan, Philippines [26] | A navicular from Borneo was dated to 8550-1050 BCE. Survival into even more recent times has been proposed on the basis of teeth and skins owned by indigenous peoples, local names, folklore, and alleged sightings including two photographs taken in 1975. However, most authors discount these remains as imports from outside Borneo, and the photographs as hoaxes. [27] | |
Javan tiger | Population of the Sunda Island tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) | Java, Indonesia | The last confirmed individual was killed at the Mount Halimun Salak National Park in 1984, [25] though a tiger was sighted near Sukabumi Selatan in 2019 and one recovered hair was identified as closer genetically to a Javan museum specimen than to tigers from Sumatra, southeast Asia, and Russia. [28] Named a distinct subspecies in 1844, but genetic research indicates that it is not different enough from the extant Sumatran tiger, and as a result the taxon P. t. sondaica is not extinct. [24] | |
Caspian tiger | Population of the mainland Asian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) | Western and Central Asia | The last known wild individual was killed in Turkey in 1970, and the last in captivity in Iran during the 1979 Revolution. [25] Though named as the subspecies P. t. virgata in 1815, genetic evidence indicates that it is not different enough from other tigers of the Asian mainland to warrant separate status. It was closest to the extant Siberian tiger. [24] A reintroduction attempt using Siberian tigers began in the Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve of Kazakhstan in 2024. [29] | |
South China tiger | Population of the mainland Asian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) | Southern China | Last recorded in the wild around 2000; survives in captivity. [30] Though named as the subspecies P. t. amoyensis in 1905, genetic evidence indicates that it is not different enough from other mainland tigers to warrant separate status. [24] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Cypriot genet | Genetta plesictoides | Cyprus | Most recent remains dated to 9050 BCE. [12] |
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Malabar large-spotted civet | Viverra civettina | Western Ghats, India | Last collected in 1989. [31] |
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Hokkaidō wolf | Canis lupus hattai | Hokkaidō, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Iturup and Kunashir [32] | Exterminated by 1889 as part of a plan to use Hokkaidō for horse and cattle ranching. [33] | |
Japanese wolf | Canis lupus hodophilax | Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, Japan | Last confirmed individual killed in 1905, shortly after a rabies epidemic ravaged the population. [33] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Ussuri dhole | Cuon alpinus alpinus | Western Sayan Mountains to Sikhote-Alin and North Korea | Last recorded in the Western Sayan in 2008. [34] [b] |
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Japanese sea lion | Zalophus japonicus | Japanese archipelago and Korea | Last confirmed record in the Liancourt Rocks in 1951, with unconfirmed sightings reaching to 1975. [36] |
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Hokkaidō otter | Lutra lutra whiteleyi | Hokkaidō and southern Kuril Islands [37] | Last known individual killed at Shiretoko Peninsula in 1950. [38] | |
Japanese otter | Lutra nippon | Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū, Japan | Last confirmed sighting in Shikoku in 1983. [37] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Tarpan | Equus ferus ferus | Iberian Peninsula to Western Siberia; [39] Anatolia? [40] | Historically recorded in Western Siberia until the 18th century. Analysis of bones found at archaeological sites from the Chalcolithic period (c. 3000-2000 BCE) show wild horses in this area belonged to the subspecies E. f. ferus and not to Przewalski's horse (E. f. przewalskii). [39] | |
Syrian wild ass | Equus hemionus hemippus | Fertile Crescent | Last known individual died in captivity at Vienna Zoo in 1927. Probably disappeared from the wild around the same time. [41] | |
European wild ass | Equus hemionus hydruntinus | Southern Europe to northern Iran [42] | Most recent remains at Çatalhöyük, Turkey dated to 748-406 BCE. [43] | |
Lena horse | Equus lenensis | Northern Siberia | Most recent remains at Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island dated to 320-220 BCE. Horse remains of undetermined affiliation were also found in an Inuit site at Cape Baranov dating to the 8th-9th century CE. The cold-adapted Yakutian horse was speculated to be a descendant of the Lena horse, but genetic evidence shows it descends from domestic horses introduced from Central Asia in the Middle Ages. [44] Nevertheless, the Yakutian horse is used as proxy for the Lena horse in Pleistocene Park. [45] | |
Ovodov horse | Equus ovodovi | Southern Siberia to northern China | Most recent remains in China dated to 1666-1506 BCE. [46] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Przewalski's horse | Equus ferus przewalskii | Central and eastern Asian steppe | Last confirmed sighting in the wild in the Gobi Desert in 1969. It was reintroduced to the Gobi and at Hustai National Park, Mongolia in 1992. [47] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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African wild ass | Equus africanus | North Africa, Horn, Levant, and Arabian Peninsula | Most recent remains at Hili 8, United Arab Emirates dated to 3000 BCE. [48] |
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Bornean tapir | Population of the Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) | Borneo | Most recent remains at the Niah Caves, Sarawak dated to c. 6000 BCE. The Bornean tapir was similar in size or slightly smaller than other populations. Possible folk memory of the animal was documented in the island in the 19th century. [49] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Woolly rhinoceros | Coelodonta antiquitatis | Northern Eurasia | Environmental DNA last detected in permafrost dating to 8050-7650 BCE near the Kolyma river, Russia. [50] | |
Vietnamese rhinoceros | Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus | Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and eastern Thailand | Last individual killed at the Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam in 2010. [51] | |
Lesser Indian rhinoceros | Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis | Northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar | Last confirmed individual killed around 1888 in the Sundarbans. Survival into the 20th century is doubtful, certainly not past 1925. [52] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Northern Sumatran rhinoceros | Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis | India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar | Confirmed extinct in the three former countries but could survive in the Lassai Tract of Myanmar. [53] |
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Bactrian camel | Camelus bactrianus | Central and eastern Asian steppe [54] | Genetic evidence indicates that the domestic Bactrian camel and the extant, more desert-adapted wild Bactrian camel (C. ferus) from East Turkestan split over one million years ago. In consequence, the latter species cannot be the wild ancestor of the former, and the unknown ancestor of C. bactrianus must have become extinct at some point after the species was domesticated around 4000-3000 BCE. [55] | |
Dromedary | Camelus dromedarius | Arabian Peninsula | Most recent remains of the wild form at Al Sufouh, United Arab Emirates, dated to 404 BCE. [56] The species survives as domestic and feral populations. |
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Cebu warty pig | Sus cebifrons cebifrons | Cebu, Philippines | Described from skulls collected in Cebu island, where the species Sus cebifrons is now extinct, but lack of other remains makes the subspecies distinction with other Philippine islands populations dubious. [57] The whole species is threatened by habitat fragmentation caused by logging and agriculture, hunting pressure, and hybridization with domestic pigs. [58] |
Sus sp. | Miyako Island, Japan | Most recent remains dated to 9050-8050 BCE. [12] |
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Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus | Hippopotamus minor | Cyprus | Most recent remains dated to 10699-7299 BCE. [5] |
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Common hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibius | Subsaharan Africa, Egypt, and the Levantine coast [59] | Disappeared from the Southern Levant during the Iron Age (1200-586 BCE). Being a large semiaquatic species, the hippopotamus was particularly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation and loss caused by the expanding human population. [60] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Baiji | Lipotes vexillifer | Middle and lower Yangtze River, China | Last confirmed sighting in 2004; unconfirmed reports and sightings, including photographs and video have continued, with the most recent in 2024. [61] The species declined as a result of habitat loss by water development and construction, hunting, incidental mortality caused by fishing and vessel strikes, sedimentation from poor land practices, and pollution. [62] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Miyako roe deer | Capreolus tokunagai | Miyako Island, Ryukyu, Japan | Most recent remains dated to 9050-8050 BCE. [12] | |
Irish elk | Megaloceros giganteus | Western Europe to southern Siberia | Most recent remains at Kamyshlov, Russia dated to 5845-5673 BCE. [63] | |
Schomburgk's deer | Rucervus schomburgki | Central Thailand | Last known animals in the wild were killed in 1932 near Sai Yoke and Kwae Yai, and the last in captivity was killed in 1938. Declined in the 19th century because of habitat loss as its wet grassland habitat was turned into rice fields for export. It was also hunted for meat during the monsoon season, and to use its antlers in traditional medicine. [64] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Pere David's deer | Elaphurus davidianus | North and eastern China | A swamp specialist, it disappeared from the wild around 400 CE and was reduced to a single herd in the walled Nanyuang Royal Hunting Garden of Beijing from the Yuan Dynasty to the late 19th century, when some individuals were traded to Europe. The Nanyuang herd was then exterminated by Eight Nation Alliance troops during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. In 1985-1987, animals from British zoos were released in protected areas of Beijing and Dafeng (thought to be part of the species's original range due to fossil evidence), from where other captive herds were established later in Shishou and Yuanyang. In 1998, deer from Shishou escaped during severe flooding and established four free-ranging populations in Hubei and Henan. [65] [66] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Bubal hartebeest | Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus | North Africa and Southern Levant | Disappeared from the Southern Levant during the Iron Age (1200-586 BCE). [60] | |
Caucasian wisent | Bison bonasus caucasicus | Caucasus, Kurdistan, [67] and Northern Iran | Present in eastern Turkey until the Iron Age. [68] | |
Steppe bison | Bison priscus | Northern Eurasia and North America | Most recent, confirmed remains were dated to 6870-6950 BCE near the Popigai River in the Taymyr Peninsula of Russia, [44] and environmental DNA of bison was recovered from permafrost in northeastern Siberia dating to 5050-3800 BCE. [50] Partial B. priscus remains are hard to distinguish anatomically from B. bonasus, which muddles the timeframe of its extinction in Europe and Western Siberia; often the species B. priscus is assigned to Late Pleistocene remains and B. bonasus to Holocene remains without further discussion. [44] However B. priscus is both genetically distinct and known to have survived into the middle Holocene of North America. [69] Remains of either B. priscus or B. bonasus were dated in the Angara River basin to 2550-2440 BCE, [70] and a small bison persisted in the Baikal region until the 7th-10th century CE (considered B. priscus by Boeskorov [44] and B. bonasus by Sipko [71] ). | |
Indian aurochs | Bos primigenius namadicus | Indian subcontinent | Most recent remains dated to 2200 BCE in Karnataka, India. The Indian aurochs was independently domesticated and is the originator of the zebu cattle. [72] | |
Eurasian aurochs | Bos primigenius primigenius | Europe and Western Asia | Present in the Southern Levant until the Iron Age (1200-585 BCE), [60] and the Turkey-Syria border until the Late Middle Ages. [68] The Eurasian aurochs was domesticated in the Turkey-Syria border region in the ninth millennium BCE, originating the domestic breeds of taurine cattle. [73] | |
East Asian aurochs | Bos primigenius sinensis | Central Asia, Southern Siberia, Korean Peninsula, Eastern Mongolia to Northern China[ citation needed ] | Traditionally considered the same as B. p. primigenius on morphological grounds, but revealed to be genetically distinct. [74] It was present near Lake Baikal on 3020-2960 BCE [75] and the Songnen Plain of China until c. 1640 BCE. Disappeared due to hunting, habitat loss, and capture of females to supplement domestic taurine cattle herds, which were introduced from the west. Domestic hybrid descendants survive in China, particularly in Tibet, Chamdo, and Yushu. [74] B. p. sinensis went extinct in the Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdoms period about 100 BCE to 300 CE until the 7th century, and became extinct in Mongolia and Central Asia during the Iron Age.[ citation needed ] | |
Cebu tamaraw | Bubalus cebuensis | Cebu, Philippines | Described from a partial skeleton from either the Late Pleistocene or the Holocene. [76] | |
Bubalus grovesi | South Sulawesi, Indonesia | Most recent remains dated to the Middle or Late Holocene. [77] | ||
Short-horned water buffalo | Bubalus mephistopheles | South, central, and east China | Most recent remains at Gaoling, Xi'an dated to 1750-1650 BCE. The domestic water buffalo now present in China is not a descendant of B. mephistopheles but was introduced from Southeast Asia. [78] | |
Queen of Sheba's gazelle | Gazella bilkis | Taiz, Yemen | Only known from five animals hunted in 1951. [79] | |
Saudi gazelle | Gazella saudiya | Arabian Peninsula | Last recorded in 1970. It was hunted to extinction. [80] |
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Kouprey | Bos sauveli | Northeastern Cambodia | Last confirmed record in 1969. It was hunted for its meat, skull and horns. [81] |
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Lowland wisent | Bison bonasus bonasus | Western Europe to southern Siberia | Present during the Holocene in the southern Urals, Western Siberia, the Kuznetsk Depression, Altai and Baikal regions [71] (if the latter wasn't B. priscus [44] ). The subspecies became globally extinct in the wild after the last wild animals were hunted in Poland during World War I, but survived in captivity. [82] It was reintroduced to the Altai in 1982-1984. [71] | |
Arabian oryx | Oryx leucoryx | Arabian Peninsula | Extinct in the wild in 1972 and reintroduced in Jiddat al-Harasis, Oman in 1980. [83] |
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Addax | Addax nasomaculatus | Sahara Desert and Arabian Peninsula | Possibly depicted in Neolithic rock art of Jordan. [84] | |
Muskox | Ovibos moschatus | Northern Eurasia and North America | Most recent remains in the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia dated to 615-555 BCE. [75] It was reintroduced to the Bikada River area in the same region in 1974. [85] | |
Lesser kudu | Tragelaphus imberbis | East Africa and western Arabian Peninsula | No skeletal remains known but appears in Holocene rock art from Saudi Arabia and Jordan [84] in numbers and detail suggestive of being a native species to the area. [48] Recent presence in the Arabian Peninsula is controversial. In 1967, a pair of horns were claimed to have been taken from an animal shot in Jabal Halmayn, Yemen; another was shot in Nuqrah, Saudi Arabia in 1968. Some authors believe both were escapees from private collections, [86] others that the distance between the two locations is larger than it would be expected for introduced specimens. [48] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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East Asian ostrich | Pachystruthio anderssoni [87] | Lake Baikal to Yellow River [88] | Eggshell fragments most recently dated to 7600-6245 BCE in Shabarakh-usu and Barun Daban, Mongolia. [89] [c] | |
Arabian ostrich | Struthio camelus syriacus | Near East and Arabian Peninsula | Last confirmed individual killed in Jubail, Saudi Arabia around 1941; there was also a second-hand report of a dying animal north of Petra, Jordan in 1966. Its closest relative, the North African ostrich, was introduced as a substitute in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s. [91] |
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Himalayan quail | Ophrysia superciliosa | Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India | Last collected in 1868. This species was only seen in Mussoorie for a short time period associated with cold weather. This, combined with its long and soft plumage, led to speculation that it was actually native to a more northern area and that it was pushed southwards during unusual weather conditions. The bird was also extremely cryptic, which would make it hard to detect in other areas where it might still be alive. [92] |
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Pink-headed duck | Rhodonessa caryophyllacea | Northern and eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar | Last recorded in Bihar in 1948-1949. It was uncommon and non-migratory despite its vast range. Declined due to trophy hunting, as it was generally not considered good to eat, and habitat destruction. [92] | |
Crested shelduck | Tadorna cristata | Primorye, Hokkaido, and South Korea; possibly North Korea and northeastern China | Last confirmed record in 1964. [93] |
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Ryukyu wood pigeon | Columba jouyi | Okinawa, Kerama, and Daito Islands, Japan | Last recorded on Okinawa in 1904 and on Daito in 1936, after a quick decline. The reason of extinction is unknown. [94] | |
Bonin wood pigeon | Columba versicolor | Nakondo Shima and Chichi-jima, Bonin Islands | Last recorded in 1889. Likely extinct due to deforestation and predation by introduced rats and cats. [95] |
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Catanduanes bleeding heart | Gallicolumba luzonica rubiventris | Catanduanes, Philippines | Described from one specimen collected in 1971. Recent sightings were reported in 2008, but its current status is unknown. [92] | |
Sulu bleeding-heart | Gallicolumba menagei | Tawi-tawi, Philippines | Described from two individuals collected in 1891, when it was considered extremely rare, but there were unconfirmed local reports in 1995 that it was abundant until the 1970s. Possibly became extinct due to hunting and deforestation. [96] | |
Negros fruit dove | Ptilinopus arcanus | Negros Island, Philippines | Only known from the type specimen, a female, collected in 1953. Its mate was also shot but the body fell in the underbrush and could not be retrieved. Likely disappeared due to hunting and large escale deforestation of the island. [92] |
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Iwo Jima rail | Amaurornis cinerea brevipes | Naka Iwo Jima and Minami Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands | Last recorded in 1925, though the last "official sighting" was in 1911. [92] |
Bornean Baillon's crake | Porzana pusilla mira | Borneo | Only collected once in 1912. [92] |
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Australian sarus crane | Grus antigone gillae | Philippines and northeastern Australia | The extirpated Philippine population was described as the subspecies G. a. luzonica on the basis of differences with the Indian (G. a. antigone) and Indochinese subspecies (G. a. sharpii), but genetic studies indicate that it was identical to the Australian subspecies. [97] |
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Javan lapwing | Vanellus macropterus | Java and possibly Sumatra and Timor | All reliable and recent records are from Java, with those from other islands being open to interpretation. The last confirmed record was in 1940, and unconfirmed in 2002. Possibly a migratory species. The causes of extinction are unknown but could have been hunting and habitat degradation. [92] |
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Slender-billed curlew | Numenius tenuirostris | Western Eurasia and North Africa | Bred in Kazakhstan and southern Siberia, and wintered in western Morocco and Tunisia. It likely disappeared as a result of habitat alteration in Asia and overhunting in Africa. There have been no confirmed reports worldwide since 2001. [92] |
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Tawi-tawi buttonquail | Turnix sylvaticus suluensis | Jolo and Tawi-tawi, Philippines | Last recorded in the 1950s. It could have disappeared due to severe deforestation and introduced predators. [92] |
Turnix sp. | Timor | Most recent remains dated to 650 CE. [12] |
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Spectacled cormorant | Urile perspicillatus | Commander Islands and possibly Kamchatka, Russia | Last collected in 1840-1850. It was hunted to extinction. [98] |
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Bennu heron | Ardea bennuides | Arabian Peninsula | Most recent remains at Umm Al Nar, United Arab Emites, dated to around 2500 BCE. It possibly disappeared due to wetland degradation. [5] | |
Bonin nankeen night heron | Nycticorax caledonicus crassirostris | Chichi-jima and Nakōdo-jima, Bonin Islands | Last collected in 1889. The cause of extinction is unknown. [92] |
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Northern bald ibis | Geronticus eremita | Mediterranean region | Last wild individual recorded at Palmyra, Syria in 2014. The birds of this region migrated to Ethiopia and Djibouti in the winter by way of Jordan and eastern Saudi Arabia, where they were hunted and sometimes killed in unprotected electric wires. Another reason for decline was the degradation of habitat in Syria due to aridification, livestock grazing, and firewood collection, along with poisoning by pesticides in Turkey. [99] A semi-wild population survives in Birecik, Turkey where birds range free for part of the year but are recluded and fed at the time of migration. [100] |
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Car Nicobar sparrowhawk | Accipiter butleri butleri | Car Nicobar, Nicobar Islands | Last recorded in 1901. There was an unconfirmed sighting in 1977. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Images |
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Siau scops owl | Otus siaoensis [101] | Siau Island, Indonesia | Only known from the holotype collected in 1866, it is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Sulawesi scops owl (Otus manadensis). Likely disappeared due to deforestation. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Natuna Bay owl | Phodilus badius arixuthus | Bunguran Island, Indonesia | Known only from the holotype described in 1932. [102] The reasons of extinction are unclear. [92] |
Samar bay owl | Phodilus badius riverae | Samar Island, Philippines | Only known from the holotype described in 1927 and lost in the destruction of the Bureau of Science in Manila in 1945. It has been ruled invalid by some authors because the original description (as the full species Phodilus riverae) did not include comparison with other subspecies. [102] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Ticao tarictic hornbill | Penelopidis panini ticaensis | Ticao Island, Philippines | Last recorded in 1971; it likely disappeared due to hunting and widespread deforestation. The subspecies status is uncertain and is sometimes considered a color morph instead. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Sangihe dwarf kingfisher | Ceyx fallax sangirensis | Sangihe Island, Indonesia | Last recorded in 1997. Likely extinct due to deforestation caused by intense logging and agriculture. [92] | |
Ryukyu kingfisher | Todiramphus cinnamominus miyakoensis | Miyako Island, Ryukyu, Japan | Only known from the holotype collected in 1887. Its exact nature is suspect, as the island is unsuitable for kingfishers, the bill's sheath is missing from the holotype, and the length of flight feathers noted in the original description may have been an artefact of preservation. Otherwise the type is similar to the Guam kingfisher. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Cebu white-bellied woodpecker | Dryocopus javensis cebuensis | Cebu, Philippines | Last recorded in the 1940s or 1950s. It became extinct due to deforestation. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Cebu hanging parrot | Loriculus philippensis chrysonotus | Cebu, Philippines | The last individuals in captivity died in London in 1943, after being caught in the wild in 1929. The date of extinction in the wild is unclear, but was likely caused by widespread deforestation in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2004 reports likely belonged to other subspecies subsequently introduced to the island. [92] | |
Siquijor hanging parrot | Loriculus philippensis siquijorensis | Siquijor, Philippines | Last recorded in 1908; a claimed individual collected in 1954 was actually a escaped cage bird. The subspecies likely disappeared due to deforestation and capture for the pet trade. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Cebu bar-bellied cuckooshrike | Coracina striata cebuensis | Cebu, Philippines | Last collected in 1906, with an unconfirmed report in 2000. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Cebu blackish cuckooshrike | Coracina coerulescens altera | Cebu, Philippines | Last collected in 1906, with an unconfirmed report in 2000. It likely disappeared due to deforestation. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Cyprus dipper | Cinclus cinclus olympicus | Cyprus | Extinct since 1945. [103] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Bonin grosbeak | Carpodacus ferreorostris | Chichi-jima, Bonin Islands | Last collected in 1828; claims of survival until 1890 are not substantiated. Likely disappeared because of deforestation and predation by introduced rats and cats. [104] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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White-eyed river martin | Eurochelidon sirintarae | Central Thailand | Last confirmed record in 1978, with an unconfirmed one in 1980. It was a migratory species that wintered in central Thailand but the summer range is unknown. Possibly became extinct due to hunting, deforestation, and capture for the exotic pet trade. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Negros celestial monarch | Hypothymis coelestis rabori | Negros and possibly Sibuyan Island, Philippines | Only collected once on Sibuyan in 1892. Last recorded on Negros in the 1990s, where it declined as a consequence of deforestation. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Rück's blue flycatcher | Cyornis ruckii | Near Medan?, Sumatra, Indonesia | Last collected in 1918. There are some doubts about the original distribution, as only four skins are known: two acquired in Peninsular Malaysia where they were certainly imported from elsewhere, and two from Medan. If not migratory, it probably became extinct as a result of widespread deforestation in Medan. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Cebu dark-throated oriole | Oriolus steerii assimilis | Cebu, Philippines | Last collected in 1906. Disappeared due to deforestation. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Daito varied tit | Sittiparus varius orii | Kitadaitōjima and Minamidaitōjima, Daito Islands | Last recorded in 1938. It quickly declined as a result of deforestation for sugar cane agriculture and military construction. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Bonin thrush | Zoothera terrestris | Chichi-jima, Bonin Islands | Last collected in 1828. Probably extinct due to predation by introduced rats and cats. [105] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Mukojima white-eye | Apalopteron familiare familiare | Mukojima, Nakodo-jima, and probably Chichi-jima, Bonin Islands | Last recorded in 1941. Disappeared due to deforestation. [92] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Nile crocodile | Crocodylus niloticus | Subsaharan Africa, Egypt, and the Levant | Present in Palestine and western Syria until the beginning of the 20th century. [106] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Chinese gharial | Hanyusuchus sinensis | South China | Last recorded in Hainan, western Guangxi, and the Han River delta in 1292-1630. It was subjected to an official policy of extermination from the Bronze Age to the Ming Dynasty. [107] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Varanus hooijeri | Flores and Sumba, Indonesia | Last dated to the Holocene on both islands. [12] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Ryukyu tortoise | Manouria oyamai | Ryukyu Islands, Japan | Most recent remains dated to around 9050 BCE. [108] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Gunther's streamlined frog | Nannophrys guentheri | Sri Lanka | Only known from the holotype collected in 1882. The reasons of extinction are unknown. [109] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Sri Lanka bubble-nest frog | Pseudophilautus adspersus | Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka | Last collected in 1886. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [110] | |
Pseudophilautus dimbullae | Dimbula, Sri Lanka | Known only from holotypes collected in 1933. The causes of extinction are unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [111] [112] | ||
Pseudophilautus eximius | ||||
Pseudophilautus extirpo | Sri Lanka | Last recorded in 1882. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [113] | ||
Pseudophilautus halyi | Pattipola, Sri Lanka | Only known from the holotype collected in 1899. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [114] | ||
Whitenose bubble-nest frog | Pseudophilautus leucorhinus | Sri Lanka | Only known from the holotype collected before 1856. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [115] | |
Pseudophilautus maia | Ramboda, Sri Lanka | Only known from two specimens collected in 1876 or earlier. Possibly disappeared when the local forest was cleared in 1978, which also resulted in the extinction of the endemic tree Albizia lankaensis . [116] | ||
Pseudophilautus malcolmsmithi | Sri Lanka | Only known from the holotype collected in 1927. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [117] | ||
Pseudophilautus nanus | Southern Sri Lanka | Only known from the lectotype collected in 1869. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [118] | ||
Sharp-nosed bush frog | Pseudophilautus nasutus | Sri Lanka | Last recorded in 1869; later observations in Sri Lanka and Southern India are misidentifications. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [119] | |
Pseudophilautus oxyrhynchus | Sri Lanka | Only known from the lectotype collected in 1872. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss has been suggested. [120] | ||
Pseudophilautus pardus | Sri Lanka | Only known from the holotype collected before 1859. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [121] | ||
Pseudophilautus rugatus | Taralanda, Sri Lanka | Only known from the holotype collected in 1927. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [122] | ||
Pseudophilautus temporalis | Sri Lanka | Only known from the lectotype and type series collected in 1864. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [123] | ||
Variable bush frog | Pseudophilautus variabilis | Sri Lanka | Only known from the lectotype collected in 1858. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [124] | |
Pseudophilautus zal | Sri Lanka | Not recorded since before 1947. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [125] | ||
Pseudophilautus zimmeri | Point de Galle, Sri Lanka | Not recorded since 1927. The given range is now heavily urbanized, suggesting habitat destruction as the reason of extinction. [126] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Yunnan lake newt | Hypselotriton wolterstorffi | Kunming Lake, Yunnan, China | Last recorded in 1979. Extinct due to predation by introduced fish and frogs, and habitat degradation caused by general pollution, land reclamation, and domestic duck farming. [127] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Syr Darya sturgeon | Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi | Syr Darya River | Last recorded in the 1960s. [128] Several dams, pollution and water substraction for agriculture massively altered the hydromorphology of the river. The species was also fished deliberately and accidentally. [129] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Yangtze sturgeon | Acipenser dabryanus | Yangtze River basin, China | Last recorded in the lower Yangtze around 1995. Captive animals were reintroduced to the upper and middle parts of the river in 2007, but there is still no sign of reproduction in the wild. The species declined due to fishing (both direct and accidental), pollution, deforestation on the river margins, and the construction of the Gezhouba Dam, Three Gorges Dam, and Xiangjiaba Dam, which changed the temperature and hydrology and prevented the sturgeon from reahcing the lower part of the river. [130] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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European sea sturgeon | Acipenser sturio | Coastal waters of Europe and northern Anatolia [131] | Last recorded in Turkey in the 1980s. [132] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Chinese paddlefish | Psephurus gladius | Yangtze and Yellow River basins, China | Last recorded in 2003. The construction of the Gezhouba Dam in the middle part of the Yangtze blocked the migration route to spawn in the upper river. It was also heavily fished historically, which depleted the species as it had a long generation time. [133] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Manila Bay herring | Clupea manulensis | Manila Bay, Philippines | Not recorded since its description in 1822. [134] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Beyşehir bleak | Alburnus akili | Lake Beyşehir, Turkey | Extinct due to predation by zanders introduced in 1955. It could also have hybridized with the also introduced Sakarya bleak. [135] | |
Anabarilius macrolepis | Yilong Lake, Yunnan, China | Disappeared when the lake dried completely for 20 days in 1981, as a result of water substraction. [136] | ||
Pait | Barbodes amarus | Lake Lanao, Philippines | Last recorded in 1982. Disappeared along with most of the original ichthyofauna of the lake (see below) due to excesive and unsustainable fishing practices such as dynamite fishing, extraction of water for industrial, agricultural, and domestic use; illegal logging and pollution, and predation by accidentally introduced tank goby and snakehead gudgeon. The latter species is now the most common fish in the lake. [137] | |
Baolan | Barbodes baoulan | Last recorded in 1991. [138] | ||
Bagangan | Barbodes clemensi | Last recorded in 1975. [139] | ||
Barbodes disa | Last recorded in 1964. [140] | |||
Katapa-tapa | Barbodes flavifuscus | Last recorded in 1964. [141] | ||
Barbodes herrei | Last recorded in 1974. [142] | |||
Barbodes katolo | Last recorded in 1977. [143] | |||
Kandar | Barbodes lanaoensis | Last recorded in 1964. [144] | ||
Barbodes manalak | Last recorded in 1977. [145] | |||
Bitungu | Barbodes pachycheilus | Last recorded in 1964. [146] | ||
Barbodes palaemophagus | Last recorded in 1975. [147] | |||
Barbodes palata | Last recorded in 1964. [148] | |||
Bagangan sa erungan | Barbodes resimus | Last recorded in 1964. [149] | ||
Barbodes tras | Last recorded in 1976. [150] | |||
Bitungu | Barbodes truncatulus | Last recorded in 1973. [151] | ||
Yilong carp | Cyprinus yilongensis | Yilong Lake, Yunnan, China | Disappeared when the lake dried completely for 20 days in 1981, as a result of water substraction. [152] | |
Hula bream | Mirogrex hulensis | Lake Hula, Israel | Disappeared in 1957-1963, after most of the lake was drained to turn the bottom into farmland. [153] | |
Schizothorax saltans | Talas River basin, Kazakhstan | Last recorded in 1953. Disappeared due to habitat loss caused by water substraction, high pollution, and fishing. [154] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Barbodes cataractae | Misamis Occidental and Lake Lanao, Philippines | The holotype was collected in an unidentified river in Misamis Occidental in 1934. It was only known from Lake Lanao otherwise, and was last recorded there before 1973. [155] |
Barbodes lindog | Lake Lanao, Philippines | Last recorded in 2008. [156] |
Barbodes sirang | Last recorded in 2007. [157] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Siamese flat-barbelled catfish | Platytropius siamensis | Chao Phraya and Bang Pakong River basins, Thailand | Last recorded in 1975-1977. Disappeared due to damming and canalization of the rivers, pollution, and reclamation of wetlands around Bangkok. [158] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Kunimasu | Oncorhynchus kawamurae | Lake Tazawa, Japan | Extirpated from its original range in 1940, when acidic water was released to the lake during the construction of hydroelectric power infrastructure. Survives in Lake Saiko, where the species was introduced in 1935. [159] | |
Beloribitsa | Stenodus leucichthys | Caspian Sea, Volga, Ural, and Terek River drainages | Last recorded in the Ural in the 1960s. All spawning grounds were lost after dams were built in the Volga, Ural, and Terek river drainages. The species continues to exist in captivity, from which it is released periodically in its native range. However, illegal fishing and hybridization with the introduced nelma remain threats to its survival. [160] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Bia | Exyrias volcanus | Taal Lake, Philippines | Last recorded in 1927. Possibly disappeared due to overfishing, pollution, habitat degradation, and invasive species among other reasons. [161] [162] |
Yellow-bellied goby | Silhouettea flavoventris |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Tristramella intermedia | Lake Hula, Israel | Disappeared when the lake and most adjacent marshes were drained in the 1970s. [163] |
Tristramella magdelainae | Damascus, Syria | Last collected in the 1950s. Possibly disappeared due to drought, pollution, and water extraction. [164] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Neostethus ctenophorus | Laguna de Bay, Luzon, Philippines | Not recorded since its description in 1937. Likely disappeared due to pollution. [165] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Lost shark | Carcharinus obsoletus | Southern South China Sea | Last collected in 1934. The coasts it inhabited are heavily exploited, both for fishing and shark fishing, as well as degraded for use in aquaculture, pollution, and destruction of coral reefs. [166] |
Common name | Scientific name | Range | Comments | Pictures |
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Smalltooth sawfish | Pristis pectinata | Mid-Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | Last caught in Israel before 1956. [167] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Cyamus rhytinae | Bering Sea | Parasite of Steller's sea cow. [168] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Risiocnemis laguna | Paete, Luzon, Philippines | Only known from three specimens collected in 1916. The only known locality is now heavily developed and urbanized, making it likely that it disappeared due to habitat destruction. [169] |
Scientific name | Range |
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Rakantrechus elegans | Japan [170] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Compressalges nipponiae | Central China and Taiwan to Japan and the Russian Far East | Parasite of the crested ibis. A conservation-induced extinction produced in the late 20th century. [168] |
Scientific name | Range | Comments |
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Amynthas japonicus | Possibly Dejima or Nagasaki, Japan | Last collected in the 1820s. It could have disappeared due to habitat loss, though the exact locality of origin is unknown. [170] |
Scientific name | Range |
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Lamellidea monodonta | Bonin Islands, Japan [171] [172] |
Lamellidea nakadai |
Scientific name | Range |
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Vitrinula chaunax | Bonin Islands, Japan [173] [174] [175] |
Vitrinula chichijimana | |
Vitrinula hahajimana |
Scientific name | Range |
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Hirasea planulata | Bonin Islands, Japan [176] |
Scientific name | Range | Pictures |
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Xerocrassa picardi | Israel [177] |
Scientific name | Range |
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Littoraria flammea | Chinese coast [178] |
Scientific name | Range |
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Gastrocopta chichijimana | Bonin Islands, Japan [179] [180] |
Gastrocopta ogasawarana |
This article is a list of biological species, subspecies, and evolutionary significant units that are known to have become extinct during the Holocene, the current geologic epoch, ordered by their known or approximate date of disappearance from oldest to most recent.
Barbodes clemensi is an extinct species of cyprinid endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. It was one of the several species of fish in the Philippines known as bagangan. This species can reach a length of 23.5 centimetres (9.3 in) TL.
Barbodes resimus is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines where it was only known to occurs at the Agus Rapids at the lake's outlet. It was one of the several species of fish in the Philippines known as bagangan. This species reached a length of 2.2 centimetres (0.87 in) TL.
Barbodes palaemophagus was a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 12.8 centimetres (5.0 in) TL.
Barbodes truncatulus, known locally as the bitungu, is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 13.3 centimetres (5.2 in) TL.
Barbodes amarus, known as the pait locally, was a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in). It was first identified from specimens collected from Lake Lanao in 1910 and 1922, and specimens were still present as recently as a 1982 survey of the lake. More recent surveys have failed to find species, and it is now considered extinct.
Barbodes baoulan, known locally as the Baolan, was a species of cyprinid endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines where it was found in deeper waters. This species reached a length of 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in) SL. It is now considered extinct.
Barbodes flavifuscus, known locally as the katapa-tapa, was a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) SL. It is now considered extinct.
Barbodes herrei is an extinct species of cyprinid fish formerly endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species was commercially important to local peoples.
Barbodes lanaoensis, known locally as the kandar, is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. Males of this species reached a length of 9.4 centimetres (3.7 in) SL while females reached a length of 11.8 centimetres (4.6 in).
Barbodes lindog, known locally as the lindog, is a possibly extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines where it prefers shallow, weedy waters of the bays. This species can reach a length of 13.2 centimetres (5.2 in) TL. It is commercially important to local peoples as a food fish.
Barbodes manalak, known locally as the manalak, is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. It was black on the top of the head and snout with a wide, short snout. It was dark green on the dorsum, white on the sides with a gold tint especially heavy on the belly. Fins were pale colored with a dark green dorsal fin. This species reached a length of 31.5 centimetres (12.4 in) TL. It was important to local subsistence fisheries.
Barbodes sirang, known locally as the sirang, is a possibly extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species can reach a length of 8.6 centimetres (3.4 in) TL.
Barbodes disa is an extinct species of cyprinid fish formerly endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 9.2 cm (3.6 in) TL.
Barbodes katolo is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. Males of this species reached a length of 11 centimetres (4.3 in) SL while females only reached 9.5 centimetres (3.7 in).
Barbodes pachycheilus is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 14.5 centimetres (5.7 in) TL.
Barbodes tras is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines. This species could reach a length of 12.6 centimetres (5.0 in) SL.
Barbodes tumba is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Mindanao, Philippines where it is found in Lake Lanao and associated water systems. This species can reach a length of 12.9 centimetres (5.1 in) SL.
Barbodes palata is an extinct species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Lanao, Mindanao, the Philippines. This species reached a length of 14 centimetres (5.5 in) TL. It was a commercially important species to the local peoples.
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