List of endangered mammals

As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 474 endangered mammalian species.[1] 8.6% of all evaluated mammalian species are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists 86 mammalian subspecies as endangered.

•   Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species
•   Critically endangered (CR): 203 species
•   Endangered (EN): 505 species
•   Vulnerable (VU): 536 species
•   Near threatened (NT): 345 species
•   Least concern (LC): 3,306 species
•   Data deficient (DD): 872 species

Mammalian species (IUCN, 2020-1)

• 5850 extant species have been evaluated
• 4978 of those are fully assessed[lower-alpha 1]
• 3651 are not threatened at present[lower-alpha 2]
• 1244 to 2116 are threatened[lower-alpha 3]
• 81 to 83 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
  • 81 extinct (EX) species[lower-alpha 4]
  • 2 extinct in the wild (EW)
  • 0 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]
  • 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR(PEW)]

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1. excludes data deficient evaluations.
2. NT and LC.
3. Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
4. Chart omits extinct (EX) species

Endangered (EN) species are considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

Of the subpopulations of mammals evaluated by the IUCN, five species subpopulations have been assessed as endangered.

For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are designed to classify taxa facing "a very high risk of exintction". An even higher risk is faced by critically endangered species, which meet the quantitative criteria for endangered species. Critically endangered mammals are listed separately. There are 679 mammalian species which are endangered or critically endangered.

Additionally 783 mammalian species (14% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN.[2] While the category of data deficient indicates that no assessment of extinction risk has been made for the taxa, the IUCN notes that it may be appropriate to give them "the same degree of attention as threatened taxa, at least until their status can be assessed."[3]

This is a complete list of endangered mammalian species and subspecies evaluated by the IUCN. Species and subspecies which have endangered subpopulations (or stocks) are indicated. Where possible common names for taxa are given while links point to the scientific name used by the IUCN.

Odd-toed ungulates

Species

• Wild horse
• Grévy's zebra
• Baird's tapir
• Malayan tapir
• Mountain tapir

Subspecies

• Przewalski's horse
• Turkmenian kulan
• Persian onager

Primates

There are 121 species and 56 subspecies of primate assessed as endangered.

Gibbons

Species

• Western hoolock gibbon
• Agile gibbon
• Bornean white-bearded gibbon
• Kloss's gibbon
• Lar gibbon
• Silvery gibbon
• Müller's Bornean gibbon
• Pileated gibbon
• Yellow-cheeked gibbon
• Southern white-cheeked gibbon
• Siamang

Subspecies

• Carpenter's lar
• Malaysian lar
• Sumatran lar gibbon
• Abbott's gray gibbon
• Northern gray gibbon
• Muller's gray gibbon

Great apes

Species

• Bonobo
• Chimpanzee

Subspecies

• Mountain gorilla
• Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee
• Eastern chimpanzee
• Central chimpanzee

Lemurs

There are 48 species and one subspecies of lemur assessed as endangered.

Indriids

• Betsileo woolly lemur
• Bemaraha woolly lemur
• Southern woolly lemur
• Moore's woolly lemur
• Western woolly lemur
• Sambirano woolly lemur
• Coquerel's sifaka
• Crowned sifaka
• Von der Decken's sifaka
• Milne-Edwards' sifaka
• Verreaux's sifaka

Daubentoniidae species

• Aye-aye

Sportive lemurs

• Ahmanson's sportive lemur
• Ankarana sportive lemur
• Betsileo sportive lemur
• Milne-Edwards' sportive lemur
• Grewcock's sportive lemur
• Holland's sportive lemur
• Hubbard's sportive lemur
• White-footed sportive lemur
• Small-toothed sportive lemur
• Daraina sportive lemur
• Mittermeier's sportive lemur
• Otto's sportive lemur
• Randrianasolo's sportive lemur
• Scott's sportive lemur
• Wright's sportive lemur

Lemurids

Species

• White-headed lemur
• Collared brown lemur
• Crowned lemur
• Sanford's brown lemur
• Ring-tailed lemur

Subspecies

• Gilbert's bamboo lemur

Cheirogaleids

• Arnhold's mouse lemur
• Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
• Bongolava mouse lemur
• Danfoss' mouse lemur
• Jolly's mouse lemur
• MacArthur's mouse lemur
• Margot Marsh's mouse lemur
• Mittermeier's mouse lemur
• Golden-brown mouse lemur
• Sambirano mouse lemur
• Simmons' mouse lemur
• Coquerel's giant mouse lemur
• Northern giant mouse lemur
• Amber Mountain fork-marked lemur
• Pale fork-marked lemur
• Pariente's fork-marked lemur

Tarsiers

Species

• Peleng tarsier
• Sangihe tarsier

Subspecies

• Tarsius bancanus bancanus
• Belitung Island tarsier

Old World monkeys

Species

• Preuss's monkey
• Tana River mangabey
• White-naped mangabey
• Sanje mangabey
• Roloway monkey
• Moor macaque
• Arunachal macaque
• Lion-tailed macaque
• Toque macaque
• Barbary macaque
• Drill
• Proboscis monkey
• Western red colobus
• Udzungwa red colobus
• Zanzibar red colobus
• Pennant's colobus
• Tana River red colobus
• Temminck's red colobus
• Ugandan red colobus
• Javan surili
• Sumatran surili
• Mentawai langur
• Red-shanked douc
• Black-shanked douc
• Black snub-nosed monkey
• Gray snub-nosed monkey
• Golden snub-nosed monkey
• Kashmir gray langur
• François' langur
• Gee's golden langur
• Indochinese lutung
• Hatinh langur
• Phayre's leaf monkey
• Shortridge's langur
• Purple-faced langur

Subspecies

• Bioko Preuss's monkey
• Cameroon Preuss's monkey
• Cercopithecus erythrogaster erythrogaster
• Golden guenon
• Prigogine's Angolan colobus
• Mt Uaraguess guereza
• Bioko black colobus
• Dusky toque macaque
• Highland toque macaque
• Dry zone toque macaque
• Mainland drill
• Bioko drill
• Nasalis larvatus larvatus
• Nasalis larvatus orientalis
• Miller's grizzled langur
• Crested grizzled langur
• Southern mitered langur
• Presbytis melalophos sumatranus
• Siberut langur
• Hubei golden snub-nosed monkey
• Quinling golden snub-nosed monkey
• Moupin golden snub-nosed monkey
• Grey langur (southern)
• Indochinese gray langur
• Trachypithecus phayrei phayrei
• Shan states langur
• Orange-bellied capped leaf monkey
• Blond-bellied langur
• Tenebrous capped langur
• Highland purple-faced langur
• Northern purple faced leaf monkey
• Southern purple faced langur

New World monkeys

Species

• Guatemalan black howler
• Maranhão red-handed howler
• White-bellied spider monkey
• Peruvian spider monkey
• Geoffroy's spider monkey
• White-cheeked spider monkey
• Southern muriqui
• Coimbra Filho's titi
• Rio Beni titi
• Ollala brothers' titi
• Buffy-headed marmoset
• Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin
• Varied white-fronted capuchin
• White-nosed saki
• Uta Hick's bearded saki
• Gray woolly monkey
• Golden-headed lion tamarin
• Black lion tamarin
• Golden lion tamarin
• Pied tamarin
• White-footed tamarin
• Crested capuchin

Subspecies

• Ornate spider monkey
• Yucatan spider monkey
• Lagothrix cana cana
• Grey-crowned Central American squirrel monkey
• Black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey

Lorisoidea

Species

• Red slender loris

Subspecies

• Bioko needle-clawed galago
• Galagoides zanzibaricus zanzibaricus
• Loris lydekkerianus grandis
• Northern Ceylonese slender loris
• Horton plains slender loris
• Loris tardigradus tardigradus
• Bioko squirrel galago

Cetartiodactyls

Cetartiodactyla includes dolphins, whales and even-toed ungulates. There are 40 species, 14 subspecies, and four subpopulations of cetartiodactyl assessed as endangered.

Non-cetacean even-toed ungulates

There are 33 species and ten subspecies of non-cetacean even-toed ungulate assessed as endangered.

Musk deer species

• Anhui musk deer
• Dwarf musk deer
• Alpine musk deer
• Kashmir musk deer
• Black musk deer
• White-bellied musk deer

Deer species

• Calamian deer
• Indian hog deer
• Persian fallow deer
• South Andean deer
• Eld's deer
• Visayan spotted deer

Bovids

Species

• Arabian tahr
• Banteng
• Wild water buffalo
• Lowland anoa
• Mountain anoa
• West Caucasian tur
• Walia ibex
• Jentink's duiker
• Abbott's duiker
• Rhim gazelle
• Speke's gazelle
• Nile lechwe
• Nilgiri tahr
• Przewalski's gazelle
• Mountain nyala

Subspecies

• Lelwel hartebeest
• Swayne's hartebeest
• Rwenzori red duiker
• Western klipspringer
• Dwarf blue sheep
• Western mountain reedbuck
• Saiga tatarica mongolica

Other non-cetacean even-toed ungulates

Species

• Togian babirusa
• Chacoan peccary
• Pygmy hippopotamus
• Okapi
• Javan warty pig
• Philippine mouse-deer

Subspecies

• Masai giraffe
• Reticulated giraffe
• Bawean warty pig

Cetaceans

Species

• Sei whale
• Blue whale
• Fin whale
• Hector's dolphin
• North Atlantic right whale
• North Pacific right whale
• South Asian river dolphin

Subspecies

• Black sea harbour porpoise
• Ganges river dolphin
• Indus river dolphin
• Black sea bottlenose dolphin

Subpopulations

• Bowhead whale (1 subpopulation)
• Short-beaked common dolphin (1 subpopulation)
• Humpback whale (2 subpopulations)
• Sperm whale (1 subpopulation)

Marsupials

• Northern bettong
• Tate's triok
• Northern quoll
• Eastern quoll
• Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
• Matschie's tree-kangaroo
• Dingiso
• Ifola tree-kangaroo
• David's echymipera
• Numbat
• Dibbler
• Giant bandicoot
• Mahogany glider
• Nabarlek
• Proserpine rock-wallaby
• Gebe cuscus
• Woodlark cuscus
• Alexandria false antechinus
• Seram bandicoot
• Tasmanian devil
• Calaby's pademelon
• Mountain pademelon

Carnivora

Species

• Red panda
• Galápagos fur seal
• Ethiopian wolf
• Bay cat
• Owston's palm civet
• Dhole
• Otter civet
• Sea otter
• Western falanouc
• Grandidier's mongoose
• Andean mountain cat
• Marine otter
• Southern river otter
• Hairy-nosed otter
• Darwin's fox
• African wild dog
• Iberian lynx
• Bornean ferret-badger
• Mediterranean monk seal
• Narrow-striped mongoose
• Black-footed ferret
• Eastern mountain coati
• Hawaiian monk seal
• Australian sea lion
• Tiger
• New Zealand sea lion
• Flat-headed cat
• Giant otter
• Caspian seal
• Large-spotted civet
• Galápagos sea lion

Subspecies

• Western steller sea lion
• Central American oncilla
• Bornean clouded leopard
• Sumatran clouded leopard
• Asiatic lion
• Siberian tiger
• Indochinese tiger
• Bengal tiger
• Ungava seal
• Saimaa ringed seal

Afrosoricida

Includes tenrecs and golden moles.

• Marley's golden mole
• Giant golden mole
• Van Zyl's golden mole
• Jenkins' shrew tenrec
• Northern shrew tenrec
• Gunning's golden mole
• Juliana's golden mole

Eulipotyphla

There are 43 species in the order Eulipotyphla assessed as endangered.

Shrews

• Bornean water shrew
• Ansell's shrew
• Bailey's shrew
• Bale shrew
• Canarian shrew
• Desperate shrew
• Sri Lankan rain forest shrew
• Kivu long-haired shrew
• Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew
• Negros shrew
• Ryukyu shrew
• Guramba shrew
• Cameroonian shrew
• Kahuzi swamp shrew
• Tanzanian shrew
• Tarella shrew
• Telford's shrew
• São Tomé shrew
• Usambara shrew
• Enders's small-eared shrew
• Darién small-eared shrew
• Kelaart's long-clawed shrew
• Montane mouse shrew
• Geata mouse shrew
• Nyika burrowing shrew
• Kihaule's mouse shrew
• Oku mouse shrew
• Rumpi mouse shrew
• Pearson's long-clawed shrew
• Pribilof Island shrew
• Day's shrew
• Sri Lankan shrew
• Flores shrew
• Ceylon jungle shrew
• Howell's forest shrew
• Bioko forest shrew
• Mount Cameroon forest shrew

Other Eulipotyphla species

• Russian desman
• Echigo mole
• Hainan gymnure
• Dinagat gymnure
• Cuban solenodon
• Hispaniolan solenodon

Lagomorpha

Rabbits and relatives

• Hispid hare
• Tehuantepec jackrabbit
• Hoffmann's pika
• Ili pika
• Koslov's pika
• Amami rabbit
• Volcano rabbit
• Tres Marias rabbit
• Omilteme cottontail
• Robust cottontail

Rodents

There are 142 species and one subspecies of rodent assessed as endangered.

Hystricomorpha

("Porcupine-like")

• Painted tree-rat
• Short-tailed chinchilla
• Long-tailed chinchilla
• Southern tuco-tuco
• Bonetto's tuco-tuco
• Tuco-tuco of the dunes
• Furtive tuco-tuco
• Pilar tuco-tuco
• Rio Negro tuco-tuco
• Ruatan Island agouti
• Cabrera's hutia
• Eared hutia
• Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat
• Lund's Atlantic tree-rat
• Giant Atlantic tree-rat
• Hispaniolan hutia
• Moojen's Atlantic spiny rat
• Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat

Myomorpha

There are 103 species in Myomorpha assessed as endangered.

Murids

Includes mice, rats, gerbils, and relatives.

• Himalayan field mouse
• Dinagat hairy-tailed rat
• Long-headed hill rat
• Koopman's pencil-tailed tree mouse
• Panay cloudrunner
• Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat
• Montane shaggy rat
• Yalden's rat
• Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat
• Sulawesi spiny rat
• Western gerbil
• Giant thicket rat
• Manipur bush rat
• Marmoset rat
• Eisentraut's striped mouse
• Father Basilio's striped mouse
• Baer's wood mouse
• Mount Oku rat
• Dieterlen's brush-furred mouse
• Lophuromys eisentrauti
• Rahm's brush-furred rat
• Alpine woolly rat
• Pagai spiny rat
• Watts's spiny rat
• Dusky mosaic-tailed rat
• Bannister's rat
• Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat
• Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat
• Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat
• Dahl's jird
• Servant mouse
• Ceylon spiny mouse
• Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat
• Ceram rat
• Northern hopping mouse
• Barbour's vlei rat
• Burton's vlei rat
• Northern water rat
• Gressitt's mosaic-tailed rat
• Flores long-nosed rat
• D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago tree mouse
• Hartwig's soft-furred mouse
• Cameroon soft-furred mouse
• Gotel Mountain soft-furred mouse
• Nonsense rat
• Hainald's rat
• Mentawai rat
• Nillu rat
• Kerala rat
• Simalur rat
• Van Deusen's rat
• Bougainville naked-tailed rat
• Isabel naked-tailed rat
• Bartels's rat
• Ryukyu spiny rat
• Tokunoshima spiny rat
• King rat
• Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse
• Nolthenius's long-tailed climbing mouse

Cricetids

Includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice.

• Monster rice rat
• Jico deer mouse
• Fossorial giant rat
• Oaxaca giant deer mouse
• Nelson's giant deer mouse
• Thomas's giant deer mouse
• Transitional colilargo
• Microtus kermanensis
• Tarabundí vole
• Zempoaltépec vole
• Hammond's rice rat
• Goldman's diminutive woodrat
• Tamaulipan woodrat
• Bryant's woodrat
• Musso's fish-eating rat
• Gorgas's rice rat
• Quechuan hocicudo
• Cook's hocicudo
• Tres Marias island mouse
• Zempoaltepec
• Black-tailed mouse
• El Carrizo deer mouse
• Santa Cruz mouse
• Winkelmann's mouse
• Definitive leaf-eared mouse
• Guerrero harvest mouse
• Salt marsh harvest mouse
• Mexican water mouse
• Miahuatlán cotton rat
• Woodland Oldfield mouse
• Unicolored Oldfield mouse
• Greater Wilfred's mouse
• Magdalena rat

Nesomyids

• Hairy-tailed tree rat
• White-tipped tufted-tailed rat
• Malagasy giant rat
• Greater big-footed mouse
• White-tailed rat
• Western nesomys
• Eastern voalavo

Spalacids

• Sandy mole-rat
• Big-headed mole-rat

Dipodids

• Armenian birch mouse
• Kazbeg birch mouse

Castorimorpha

("Beaver-like")

• Giant kangaroo rat
• Stephens' kangaroo rat
• Nelson's spiny pocket mouse
• Paraguaná spiny pocket mouse
• Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse
• White-eared pocket mouse
• Michoacan pocket gopher

Sciuromorpha

("Squirrel-like")

Species

• San Joaquin antelope squirrel
• Mexican prairie dog
• Utah prairie dog
• Woolly flying squirrel
• Sipora flying squirrel
• Mentawi flying squirrel
• Tarbagan marmot
• Palmer's chipmunk
• Vincent's bush squirrel
• Smoky flying squirrel
• Fraternal squirrel
• Mearns's squirrel
• Idaho ground squirrel
• Perote ground squirrel

Subspecies

• Baja California rock squirrel

Bats

There are 46 bat species assessed as endangered.

Megabats

• Talaud flying fox
• Giant golden-crowned flying fox
• Salim Ali's fruit bat
• São Tomé collared fruit bat
• Small-toothed fruit bat
• Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
• Bougainville monkey-faced bat
• Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat
• Banks flying fox
• Mariana fruit bat
• Black-bearded flying fox
• Temotu flying fox
• Bonin flying fox
• Rennell flying fox
• Rodrigues flying fox

Microbats

• Fijian mastiff bat
• São Tomé free-tailed bat
• New Caledonia wattled bat
• Guadeloupe big-eyed bat
• Pacific sheath-tailed bat
• Guadeloupe big brown bat
• Japanese short-tailed bat
• Cox's roundleaf bat
• Tanzanian woolly bat
• Greater long-nosed bat
• Bokermann's nectar bat
• Dekeyser's nectar bat
• Fernandez's sword-nosed bat
• Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
• Loyalty bent-winged bat
• Equatorial dog-faced bat
• Natal free-tailed bat
• Ryukyu tube-nosed bat
• Atacama myotis
• Findley's myotis
• Peninsular myotis
• Flat-headed myotis
• Frosted myotis
• Isalo serotine
• Rosevear's serotine
• Endo's pipistrelle
• Paraguana moustached bat
• Rhinolophus belligerator
• Andaman horseshoe bat
• Maclaud's horseshoe bat
• Timorese horseshoe bat
• Rhinolophus proconsulis
• Ziama horseshoe bat
• Yemeni mouse-tailed bat
• Genoways's yellow bat
• Antioquian sac-winged bat
• Lesser yellow-shouldered bat
• Blunt-eared bat

Other mammals

Species

• Asian elephant
• Indian pangolin
• Philippine pangolin
• Golden-rumped elephant shrew
• Golden-bellied treeshrew
• Nicobar treeshrew

Subspecies

• Borneo elephant
• Indian elephant
• Sri Lankan Elephant
• Florida manatee
• Antillean manatee

See also

• Lists of IUCN Red List endangered species
• List of least concern mammals
• List of near threatened mammals
• List of vulnerable mammals
• List of critically endangered mammals
• List of recently extinct mammals
• List of data deficient mammals

References

1. "IUCN Red List version 2016-2". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
2. "Limitations of the Data". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 11 January 2016.
3. "2001 Categories & Criteria (version 3.1)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 11 January 2016.