List of endangered mammals



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

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 extinction". 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. 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."

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

• Siamang Subspecies • Carpenter's lar

• Malaysian lar

• Sumatran lar gibbon

• Abbott's gray gibbon

• Northern gray gibbon

• Muller's gray gibbon

Great apes
Species Subspecies • Mountain gorilla
 * Bonobo
 * Chimpanzee

• 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

• 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 • Collared brown lemur

• Crowned lemur

• Sanford's brown lemur

• Ring-tailed lemur Subspecies
 * Gilbert's bamboo lemur

Cheirogaleids
• Arnhold's mouse lemur

• Danfoss' 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 Subspecies
 * Peleng tarsier
 * Sangihe tarsier
 * Tarsius bancanus bancanus
 * Belitung Island tarsier

Old World monkeys
Species • Preuss's monkey

• Tana River mangabey

• White-naped mangabey

• Sanje mangabey

• Diana monkey

• 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

• Black snub-nosed monkey

• Golden snub-nosed monkey

• Kashmir gray langur

• François' langur

• Gee's golden langur

• Germaine's lutung

• Hatinh langur

• Phayre's leaf monkey

• Shortridge's langur

• Purple-faced langur Subspecies • Bioko Preuss's monkey

• Cameroon Preuss's monkey

• White-throated guenon

• 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

• Black bearded saki

• Uta Hick's bearded saki

• Gray woolly monkey

• Superagüi lion tamarin

• 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 Subspecies • Bioko needle-clawed galago
 * Red slender loris

• 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

• 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

• Hector's dolphin

• 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

• 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

• Sri Lankan leopard

• Siberian tiger

• Indochinese tiger

• Bengal tiger

• Ungava seal

• Saimaa ringed seal

Afrosoricida
• 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
• Hispid hare

• Tehuantepec jackrabbit

• Hoffmann's pika

• Ili pika

• Koslov's pika

• Amami rabbit

• Volcano rabbit

• Tres Marias rabbit

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

Hystricomorpha
• 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
• Dinagat hairy-tailed rat

• Heavenly hill rat

• Long-headed hill rat

• 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 hylomyscus

• 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

• Manusela mosaic-tailed rat

• Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat

• Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat

• Kondana soft-furred rat

• 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
• 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
• 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
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 • African bush elephant

• Asian elephant

• Indian pangolin

• Golden-rumped sengi

• Nicobar treeshrew Subspecies
 * Borneo elephant
 * Indian elephant
 * Sri Lankan elephant
 * Florida manatee
 * Antillean manatee