List of extinct animals of Asia

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

* Sri Lanka lion (Sri Lanka, 37.000 years BP)
* Steppe Wisent (north and central Asia, end of last ice age)
* Cave lion, "Panthera leo spelaea" (Central Asia and Siberia, end of last ice age)

Global Holocene/ Anthropocene extinctions

Mammals

* Eurasian Aurochs, "Bos primigenius primigenius" (Unknown date, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, south Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea)
* Indian Aurochs, "Bos primigenius namadicus" (9000 BC, Indian subcontinent)
* Woolly Mammoth, "Mammuthus primigenius" (around 1500 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 in Myanmar)
* Hokkaidō Wolf, "Canis lupus hattai" (1889, North Japan)
* Honshū Wolf, "Canis lupus hodophilax" (1905, South 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), Kurdistan, 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)
* 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" (possible Saudi 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

* 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

* 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 from Sri Lanka)
* "Nannophrys guentheri" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus adspersus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus dimbullae" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus eximius" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus extirpo" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus halyi" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus hypomelas" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus leucorhinus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus malcolmsmithi" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus nanus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus nasutus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus oxyrhynchus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus rugatus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus stellatus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus temporalis" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus travancoricus" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus variabilis" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus zal" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* "Philautus zimmeri" (Frog from Sri Lanka)
* Yunnan Lake Newt, "Cynops wolterstorffi" (China)

Fish

* "Acanthobrama hulensis" (Lake Huleh, Israel)
* "Cyprinus yilongensis" (Freshwater fish from China)

Molluscs

* "Gastrocopta chichijimana" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Gastrocopta ogasawarana" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Hirasea planulata" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Lamellidea monodonta" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Lamellidea nakadai" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Littoraria flammea" (Sea snail from China)
* "Trochoidea picardi" (Terrestrial snail from Israel)
* "Vitrinula chaunax" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Vitrinula chichijimana" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)
* "Vitrinula hahajimana" (Terrestrial snail from Japan)

Extinctions in the wild

Mammals

* 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

* Black Soft-shell Turtle, "Aspideretes nigricans" (Bangladesh)toast

Fish

* 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 - late 19th century
* Syria - 1891
* Iraq - 1918
* Saudi Arabia - 1923
* Iran - 1942
* Central India - 1860, last shot in 1873

Siberian tiger - "Panthera tigris altaica"

* South Korea - 1922
* Mongolia - 1930s or 1940s

Asiatic Cheetah - "Acinonyx jubatus venaticus"

* India - 1930s, last three shot in 1947
* 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

* 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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