- 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
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Sri Lanka lion (Sri Lanka , 37.000 years BP)
*Steppe Wisent (north and centralAsia , end of last ice age)
*Cave lion , "Panthera leo spelaea" (Central Asia andSiberia , end of last ice age)Global Holocene/
Anthropocene extinctionsMammals
* Eurasian Aurochs, "Bos primigenius primigenius" (Unknown date,
Middle East ,Iran ,Central Asia , southSiberia ,China ,Mongolia ,Korea )
* Indian Aurochs, "Bos primigenius namadicus" (9000 BC ,Indian subcontinent )
*Woolly Mammoth , "Mammuthus primigenius" (around1500 BC ,Wrangel Island )
*Syrian elephant , "Elephas maximus asurus" (100 BC ,Middle East )
*Chinese elephant , "Elephas maximus rubridens" (15th century BC ,East China )
*Northern Sumatran Rhinoceros , "Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis" (Bangladesh ,India , survives maybe inMyanmar )
* Hokkaidō Wolf, "Canis lupus hattai" (1889 , NorthJapan )
* Honshū Wolf, "Canis lupus hodophilax" (1905 , SouthJapan )
*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 , southUkraine (possible),Kurdistan , northernIran ,Afghanistan , Russian and ChineseTurkistan , westernMongolia , southSiberia )
*Java Tiger , "Panthera tigris sondaica" (1980s , Java island,Indonesia )
*Panay Giant Fruit Bat , "Acerodon lucifer" (Philippines )
*Negros Naked-backed Fruit Bat , "Dobsonia chapmani" (Philippines )
*Sturdee's Pipistrelle , "Pipistrellus sturdeei" (Japan )
*Syrian Wild Ass , "Equus hemionus hemippus" (Iran ,Iraq ,Israel ,Saudi Arabia ,Syria )
*Arabian Gazelle , "Gazella arabica" (possibleSaudi Arabia )
*Queen of Sheba's Gazelle , "Gazella bilkis" (Yemen )
*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
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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 inMyanmar )
*Cyprus Dipper , "Cinclus cinclus olympicus" 1950 (Cyprus )Reptiles
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Yunnan Box Turtle , "Cuora yunnanensis" (southern China (Yunnan Province) or Laos, 2 living specimens rediscovered in 2004 and 2005)Amphibians
* Hula Painted Frog, "Discoglossus nigriventer" (
Lake Huleh ,Israel )
* "Adenomus kandianus " (Toad fromSri Lanka )
* "Nannophrys guentheri " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus adspersus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus dimbullae " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus eximius " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus extirpo " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus halyi " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus hypomelas " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus leucorhinus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus malcolmsmithi " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus nanus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus nasutus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus oxyrhynchus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus rugatus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus stellatus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus temporalis " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus travancoricus " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus variabilis " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus zal " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
* "Philautus zimmeri " (Frog fromSri Lanka )
*Yunnan Lake Newt , "Cynops wolterstorffi" (China )Fish
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Acanthobrama hulensis " (Lake Huleh ,Israel )
* "Cyprinus yilongensis " (Freshwater fish fromChina )Molluscs
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Gastrocopta chichijimana " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Gastrocopta ogasawarana " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Hirasea planulata " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Lamellidea monodonta " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Lamellidea nakadai " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Littoraria flammea " (Sea snail fromChina )
* "Trochoidea picardi " (Terrestrial snail fromIsrael )
* "Vitrinula chaunax " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Vitrinula chichijimana " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )
* "Vitrinula hahajimana " (Terrestrial snail fromJapan )Extinctions in the wild
Mammals
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Saudi Gazelle , "Gazella saudiya" (Iraq ,Kuwait ,Saudi Arabia ,Syria ,Yemen )
*Scimitar Oryx , "Oryx dammah" (Algeria ,Burkina Faso ,Chad ,Egypt ,Israel ,Libya ,Mali ,Mauritania ,Morocco ,Niger ,Nigeria ,Senegal ,Sudan ,Tunisia ,Western Sahara )Reptiles
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Black Soft-shell Turtle , "Aspideretes nigricans" (Bangladesh )toastFish
* Red-tailed Shark, "Epalzeorhynchos bicolor" (
Thailand )Local extinctions
Asiatic lion - "Panthera leo persica"*
Armenia -300
*Azerbaijan -10th century
*Israel /Palestine -12th century
*Pakistan -1810
*Turkey - late19th century
*Syria -1891
*Iraq -1918
*Saudi Arabia -1923
*Iran -1942
*Central India -1860 , last shot in1873 Siberian tiger - "Panthera tigris altaica"*
South Korea -1922
*Mongolia -1930s or1940s Asiatic Cheetah - "Acinonyx jubatus venaticus"*
India -1930s , last three shot in1947
*Israel -1930s South China Tiger - "Panthera tigris amoyensis"*
Hong Kong -1940s References
* IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
. Downloaded on 24 March 2006. See also
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List of extinct animals
*List of extinct animals of Africa
*List of extinct animals of Europe
*List of extinct animals of South America
*Extinct birds External links
* [http://extinct.petermaas.nl The Extinction Website]
* [http://www.redlist.org IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]
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