List Of Extinct Animals Of New Zealand - New Extinct Animals

This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of New Zealand. This list covers only extinctions from the Holocene epoch.

Mammals

Bats, and a recently discovered extinct mouse-sized creature, are the only land mammals known to have inhabited New Zealand prior to the arrival of humans. Fossil marine mammals have been found. New Zealand now has two surviving species of endemic bat.

Birds

Extinctions since mid-19th-century European settlement

Extinctions since 14th century Māori settlement

Reptiles

• Kawekaweau, Hoplodactylus delcourti 1870, New Zealand
• Narrow-bodied skink, Oligosoma gracilicorpus 1955, New Zealand (North Island)
• Northland skink, Oligosoma northlandi (Late Holocene), New Zealand

Amphibians

• Aurora frog, Leiopelma auroraensis
• Markham's frog, Leiopelma markhami
• Waitomo frog, Leiopelma waitomoensis

Fish

Insects

• Mecodema punctellum 1931, New Zealand (Stephen Islands)

Molluscs

• Placostylus ambagiosus gardneri Land snail, Recent
• Placostylus ambagiosus hinemoa Land snail, Recent
• Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae Land snail, Recent
• Placostylus ambagiosus priscus Land snail, Recent
• Placostylus ambagiosus spiritus Land snail, Recent
• Placostylus ambagiosus worthyi Land snail, Recent

See also

• List of extinct animals
• List of extinct birds (1500 â€" present)
• List of extinct plants of New Zealand
• Waipatia maerewhenua (an extinct species of whale from the Oligocene of New Zealand)
• SB mammal
• New Zealand Threat Classification System

Notes

References

• Bell, B.D. 1994. A review of the status of New Zealand Leiopelma species (Anura: Leiopelmatidae), including a summary of demographic studies in Coromandel and on Maud Island. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Vol. 21: 341â€"349.
• Bunce, M., Worthy, T.H., Ford, T., Hoppitt, W., Willerslev, E., Drummond A., and Cooper, A. 2003. Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis. Nature, 425:172â€"175.
• Cooper, A., Lalueza-Fox, C., Anderson, C., Rambaut, A., Austin, J., and Ward, R. 2001. Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution. Nature 409:704â€"707.
• Day, D., 1981, The Doomsday Book of Animals, Ebury Press, London.
• Gill, B.; Martinson, P., (1991) New Zealand’s Extinct Birds, Random Century New Zealand Ltd.
• Gill, B. J. 2003. Osteometry and systematics of the extinct New Zealand ravens (Aves: Corvidae: Corvus). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1: 43â€"58.
• Flannery, T., and Schouten, P., 2001, A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, William Heinemann, London. ISBN 0-434-00819-2 (UK edition).
• Fuller, E., 2001, Extinct Birds, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-253-34034-9 (UK Edition).
• Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. 2001. A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 28:119â€"187.
• Huynen, L., Millar, C.D., Scofield, R.P., and Lambert, D.M. 2003. Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa. Nature, 425:175â€"178.
• Perkins, S. 2003. Three Species No Moa? Fossil DNA analysis yields surprise. Science News, 164:84.
• Philip R. Millener & T. H. Worthy (1991). "Contribution to New Zealand's late Quaternary avifauna. II: Dendroscansor decurvirostris, a new genus and species of wren (Aves: Acantisittidae)." Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 21, 2: 179â€"200.
• Philip R. Millener (1988). "Contributions to New Zealand's late Quaternary avifauna. I: Pachyplichas, a new genus of wren (Aves: Acanthisittidae), with two new species." Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 18:383â€"406
• Wilson, K-J, (2004) Flight of the Huia, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. ISBN 0-908812-52-3
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Karocolens tuberculatus. In: IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 2 March 2006.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Mecodema punctellum. In: IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 2 March 2006.
• Worthy, T.H. 1998. The Quaternary fossil avifauna of Southland, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand. Volume 28, Number 4, pp 537â€"589.
• Worthy, T.H., Holdaway R.N., 2002, The lost world of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. ISBN 0-253-34034-9.
• Worthy, T.H., et al. 2006, Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific. 103 PNAS 19419-19423.

External links

• The Extinction Website
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• Extinct species of New Zealand
• TerraNature â€" New Zealand Ecology â€" Native birds list
• TerraNature pages on New Zealand extinct birds
• TerraNature pages on rediscovered New Zealand birds previously thought extinct