The list of extinct animals of Asia features the animals that have become extinct along the history in the Asian Continent. This list only involves extinctions of the Holocene epoch.
Global Holocene extinctions
Mammals
Prehistoric extinctions (beginning of the Holocene to 1500 AD)
Recent extinctions (1500 AD to present)
Possibly extinct
Birds
Possibly extinct
Reptiles
Prehistoric extinctions (beginning of the Holocene to 1500 AD)
Amphibians
Fish
- Acanthobrama hulensis 1975, Israel
- Cyprinus yilongensis Unknown, China
- Gokce baligi
Alburnus akili, 1998, Turkey - Siamese flat-barbelled catfish
Platytropius siamensis, 1975-1977, Thailand - Tristramella intermedia 1970s, Israel
- Tristramella magdelainae Unknown, Syria
Molluscs
- Aldabra banded snail
Rhachistia aldabrae late 1990s, Seychelles - Gastrocopta chichijimana, Unknown, Japan
- Gastrocopta ogasawarana, Unknown, Japan
- Hirasea planulata, Unknown, Japan
- Lamellidea monodonta, Unknown, Japan
- Lamellidea nakadai, Unknown, Japan
- Littoraria flammea, Unknown, China
- Trochoidea picardi, Unknown, Israel
- Vitrinula chaunax, Unknown, Japan
- Vitrinula chichijimana, Unknown, Japan
- Vitrinula hahajimana, Unknown, Japan
See also
- Holocene extinction
- List of extinct animals
- List of extinct birds
- Extinct in the wild
- Lazarus taxon
- List of extinct animals of India
References
- IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 March 2006.
External links
- The Sixth Extinction
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species