List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene


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

Mammalia

Prehistoric extinctions
Common name/scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Cave lion
Panthera spelaea
10000 BC
Northern Asia and had a widespread across Europe and Southern Asia
Chinese elephant
Elephas maximus rubridens
1500 BC
Eastern China--
Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus
Hippopotamus minor
Unknown
Cyprus
Elasmotherium
Elasmotherium sp.
29000 BC
Northern Asia
Giant tapir
Tapirus augustus
2000 BC
China
Giant deer
Megaloceros giganteus
5700 BC
Northern Asia
Stegodon
Stegodon florensis insularis
2150 BC
Indonesia and Philippine Islands
Steppe wisent
Bison priscus
3400 BC
Central Asia to Siberia
Syrian elephant
Elephas maximus asurus
100 BC
Middle East
Woolly mammoth
Mammuthus primigenius
2000 BC
Northern Asia
Woolly rhinoceros
Coelodonta antiquitatis
10000 BC
Northern Asia

Recent extinctions
Common name/scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Aurochs
Bos primigenius
India, Eurasia
Northern Asia and Indian Subcontinent
Bali tiger
Panthera tigris sondaica
1937
Indonesia
Buhler's coryphomys
Coryphomys buehleri
1500s
Indonesia --
Caspian tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
1970s
Turkey to China
Caucasian elk
Alces alces caucasicus
1850s
Caucasus Mountains, Iran and Turkey
Caucasian wisent
Bison bonasus caucasicus
1925
Caucasus Mountains
Cebu warty pig
Sus cebifrons cebifrons
2000
Philippines--
Flores cave rat
Spelaeomys florensis
1500s
Indonesia --
Flores long-nosed rat
Paulamys naso
1500s
Indonesia --
Formosan clouded leopard
Neofelis nebulosa brachyura
1990s
Taiwan
Hokkaidō wolf
Canis lupus hattai
1889
Japan
Honshū wolf
Canis lupus hodophilax
1905
Japan
Ilin Island cloudrunner
Crateromys paulus
April 4, 1953
Philippines--
Indian Javan rhinoceros
Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis
Before 1925
Bangladesh, Burma, and India
Japanese river otter
Lutra lutra whiteleyi
1979
Japan
Japanese sea lion
Zalophus japonicus
1974
Sea of Japan
Javan tiger
Panthera tigris sondaica
1970s
Indonesia
Northern Sumatran rhinoceros
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis
Unknown
Bangladesh, Burma, and India
Queen of Sheba's gazelle
Gazella bilkis
1951
Yemen--
Saudi gazelle
Gazella saudiya
Unknown
Arabian Peninsula--
Schomburgk's deer
Rucervus schomburgki
1938
Thailand
Steller's sea cow
Hydrodamalis gigas
1768
Russia
Sturdee's pipistrelle
Pipistrellus sturdeei
Unknown
Japan --
Verhoeven's giant tree rat
Papagomys theodorverhoeveni
1500s
Indonesia --
Vietnamese Javan rhinoceros
Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus
2010
Vietnam to Malaysia

Possibly extinct
Common name/scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Baiji
Lipotes vexillifer
August 2004
Yangtze River, China
Gloomy tube-nosed bat
Murina tenebrosa
1962
Tsushima Island, Japan--
Kouprey
Bos sauveli
1988
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand & Vietnam
Malabar civet
Viverra civettina
1987
India

Birds

Possibly extinct
Common name/scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Black-browed babbler
Malacocincla perspicillata
1843 to 1848
Indonesia--
Catanduanes bleeding heart
Gallicolumba luzonica rubiventris
1971
Philippines--
Crested shelduck
Tadorna cristata
1985
Japan, North Korea and South Korea
Himalayan quail
Ophrysia superciliosa
1876
India
Javan lapwing
Vanellus macropterus
1940
Indonesia
Negros fruit dove
Ptilinopus arcanus
1953
Philippines
Pink-headed duck
Rhodonessa caryophyllacea
1950s
Bangladesh, Burma and India
Rück's blue flycatcher
Cyornis ruckii
1918
Indonesia --
Siau scops owl
Otus manadensis siaoensis
1866
Indonesia --
Slender-billed curlew
Numenius tenuirostris
1998
Russia
Sulu bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba menagei
1891
Philippines
Vaurie's nightjar
Caprimulgus centralasicus
1929
China--
White-eyed river martin
Pseudochelidon sirintarae
1980
Thailand

Reptiles

Prehistoric extinctions
Common name/scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Megalochelys atlas
Megalochelys atlas
10000 BC
Indian Subcontinent to Indonesia

Amphibians

Fish

Alburnus akili, 1998, Turkey
Platytropius siamensis, 1975-1977, Thailand