The list of extinct animals in Africa features the animals that have become extinct on the African continent and its islands, like Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles, Saint Helena, Cape Verde, etc. Only extinctions of the Holocene Epoch are included.
As you can see there are many unknown dates of extinction of some animals.
Mammals
Prehistoric extinctions (beginning of the Holocene to 1500 AD)
Recent extinctions (1500 to present)
Possibly extinct
Birds
Reptiles
Prehistoric extinctions (beginning of the Holocene to 1500 AD)
Recent extinctions (1500 to present)
Amphibians
Possibly extinct
Fish
- Aplocheilichthys sp. nov. 'Naivasha'
1970s, Kenya - Barbus microbarbis
Unknown, Rwanda - Pantanodon madagascariensis
Unknown, Madagascar - Ptychochromis onilahy
1962, Madagascar - Salmo pallaryi
1930s, Morocco
Insects
- Aplothorax burchelli
Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena) - Libythea cinyras
Unknown, Mauritius - Mbashe River buff
Deloneura immaculata, 1863, South Africa - Morant's blue
Lepidochrysops hypopolia, 1879, South Africa - Saint Helena giant earwig
Labidura herculeana, 1967, United Kingdom (Saint Helena) - Saint Helena darter
Sympetrum dilatatum, 1964, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
Crustacean
- Afrocyclops pauliani
1951, Madagascar - Namibcypris costata
Unknown, Namibia - Tropodiaptomus ctenopus
Unknown, Madagascar
Molluscs
- Caldwellia philyrina Unknown, Mauritius
- Campolaemus perexilis Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis blofeldi Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis exulatus Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis helena Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis melanoides Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis nonpareil Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis subplicatus Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis subtruncatus Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Chilonopsis turtoni Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Colparion madgei Unknown, Mauritius
- Ctenoglypta newtoni Unknown, Mauritius
- Cyclophorus horridulum Unknown, France (Mayotte)
- Cyclosurus mariei Unknown, France (Mayotte)
- Dupontia proletaria Unknown, France (Reunion) and Mauritius
- Erepta nevilli Unknown, Mauritius
- Gibbus lyonetianus Unknown, Mauritius
- Gonidomus newtoni Unknown, Mauritius
- Gonospira nevilli Unknown, Mauritius
- Gulella mayottensis Unknown, France (Mayotte)
- Harmogenanina linophora Unknown, France (Reunion) and Mauritius
- Harmogenanina subdetecta Unknown, France (Reunion)
- Helenoconcha leptalea Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Helenoconcha minutissima Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Helenoconcha polyodon Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Helenoconcha pseustes Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Helenoconcha sexdentata Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Helenodiscus bilamellata Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Helenodiscus vernoni Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Madeiran land snail 1878, Portugal (Madeira)
- Pachnodus velutinus 1994, Seychelles
- Pachystyla rufozonata Unknown, Mauritius
- Pseudocampylaea loweii 1878, Portugal (Madeira)
- Pseudohelenoconcha spurca Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Pupilla obliquicosta Unknown, United Kingdom (Saint Helena)
- Rhachis comorensis Unknown, France (Mayotte)
- Rhachis sanguineus Unknown, Mauritius
- Tropidophora desmazuresi Unknown, Mauritius
- Tropidophora semilineata Unknown, France (Mayotte)
- Unio cariei Unknown, France (Reunion)
See also
- List of extinct animals
- List of extinct animals of New Zealand
- List of extinct animals of Réunion
- List of extinct birds
- Extinct in the wild
- Lazarus taxon
References
- IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 March 2006.
External links
- The Extinction Website
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species