List of African animals extinct in the Holocene

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Map of Africa
The quagga (Equus quagga quagga), extinct since 1883, was zebra-like in the front but more horse-like in the rear. A breeding program aims to create similar-looking animals, but these are not true quaggas.

This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE)[a] and continues to the present.[1]

extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna. However, a few species have disappeared from Africa as part of the ongoing Holocene extinction
, driven by human activity.

Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands, Macaronesia, and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are biogeographically distinct from mainland Africa and have a much greater number of Holocene extinctions. Recently extinct species from these regions are listed in separate articles.

Many extinction dates are unknown due to a lack of relevant information.

Mammals (class Mammalia)

Elephant-like mammals (order Proboscidea)

Elephants and mammoths (family Elephantidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
North African elephant Loxodonta africana pharaoensis North Africa
Late Paleolithic or early Holocene.[3] However the validity of separate subspecies in Loxodonta africana has been called into question, including the purported North African subspecies L. a. pharaoensis.[2]

Western Africa through the Garamantes became additional sources of ivory and live elephants for the circus games. The last clear mention of wild elephants in the former is a speech of the orator Themistius delivered in 370 CE,[5] where he mentions that "elephants have been removed from Libya".[b]

Rodents (order Rodentia)

Old World rats and mice (family Muridae)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Ethiopian amphibious rat Nilopegamys plumbeus Little Abbai river, Northwestern Ethiopia Known from, and described from a single specimen captured on March 20, 1927. The species is believed to be semiaquatic due to adaptations shared with aquatic rodents from South America that are not known in other African rodents. If this is correct, this is probably an extremely solitary species as similarly adapted rodents are, which increases the difficulty of detection. However the area where the original individual was captured has been also altered by extensive overgrazing by livestock, which may have caused its decline and extinction.[7][8]

Primates
(order Primates)

Lorises, pottos, and angwantibos (family Lorisidae)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Mount Kenya potto
 Perodicticus ibeanus stockleyi Mount Kenya, Kenya Known from a single specimen collected from
montane forest in 1938.[9]

True insectivores (order Eulipotyphla)

True shrews (family Soricidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Balsam shrew Crocidura balsamifera Lower Nile, Egypt Described from mummified remains from Ancient Egypt dating to 821-171 BCE. Presumed to have been a swamp or gallery forest specialist whose natural habitat was cleared for agriculture.[10]
Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Güldenstädt's shrew Crocidura gueldenstaedtii
Western Asia
 Mummified remains from the beginning of the
Ptolemaic Period at Quesna, Egypt indicate that it once occurred in the Nile Delta, where it no longer does, supporting a moister regional environment at the time.[11]

Carnivorans (order Carnivora)

Cats (family Felidae)

Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Barbary lion Population of the northern lion (Panthera leo leo) North Africa Lions existed throughout Egypt in ancient times.
Linnaeus in the 18th century, modern molecular studies indicate that there is not enough difference with the extant lions of India, western and central Africa to warrant separate subspecies status, and as a result the taxon P. l. leo is not extinct.[14]
Cape lion Population of the southern lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) South Africa Last individual was killed in
eastern Africa to warrant separate subspecies status, and as a result the taxon P. l. melanochaita is not extinct.[14]
Barbary leopard Population of the African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Atlas Mountains Last recorded in 1996.[13] Though named as the subspecies P. p. panthera in 1777, it was later included in P. p. pardus on morphological and molecular grounds.[15]
Zanzibar leopard Population of the African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Unguja, Tanzania Only African insular population of leopards. Subjected to a extermination campaign after the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964, the last confirmed sighting happened in 1986.[13] Though named as the subspecies P. p. adersi in 1932, it was included in the African leopard P. p. pardus in 1996 on morphological grounds.[15] There was an unconfirmed recording of a leopard in Unguja in 2018.[13]

Dogs (family Canidae)

Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Gray wolf
 Canis lupus Eurasia and North America Lived in the Nile Delta in prehistoric times.[3] The African wolf has considerable genetic admixture from the gray wolf.[16]

Bears (family Ursidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Atlas bear Ursus arctos crowtheri Northern Maghreb This subspecies was named after the second-hand description of a female killed in the
mtDNA studies revealed that two highly distinct lineages of bears existed in North Africa through the Holocene: one identical to Cantabrian brown bears from Spain, and another that was basal to all European brown bears.[c] The North African bear could have disappeared due to increased habitat fragmentation.[17]
Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Syrian bear
 Ursus arctos syriacus Near East Lived in the Nile Delta in prehistoric times and possibly in northeastern Egypt in early historical times.[3]

Odd-toed ungulates (order
Perissodactyla
)

Horses and allies (family Equidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Atlas wild ass Equus africanus atlanticus North Africa Disappeared around 300 CE.
Domestic donkeys have two different haplotypes, one shared with the Nubian wild ass, and another of unknown origin that is not found in the Somali wild ass. The presence of the Atlas wild ass in the Ancient world makes it a plausible source for the second haplotype.[21][25]
North African horse Equus algericus North Africa Most recent remains dated to 4855-4733 BCE at El Harhoura 1, Morocco.[26]
Giant Cape zebra Equus capensis Southern Africa Most recent remains at
equid of the African Quaternary and an extreme hypsodont, its extinction is speculated to be related to the decline in the availability or productivity of grassland habitats since the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.[26] However, ancient DNA studies indicate that the giant Cape zebra is not a separate species, but a distinct lineage of the plains zebra (E. quagga).[27]
North African zebra Equus mauritanicus North Africa Related to the plains zebra. Disappeared c. 4000 BCE.[26]
Equus melkiensis Northern Algeria and Morocco Disappeared c. 4000 BCE. Related to the African wild ass[26] and sometimes considered the same as E. a. atlanticus.[20]
Quagga Equus quagga quagga Cape Province, South Africa Last seen in the wild between 1860 and 1865. The last individual died in captivity in Europe in 1883. It was hunted to extinction.[28]
Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Nubian wild ass Equus africanus africanus Nubian Desert Considered possibly extinct as it has only been infrequently seen since it was sighted in Ethiopia's Barka Valley and Eritrea during the 1970s. The subspecies is threatened by hunting for food and traditional medicine, competition with livestock for vegetation and water, and possibly interbreeding with domestic donkeys.
feral donkeys.[21]

Rhinoceroses (family Rhinocerotidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Ceratotherium mauritanicum Northern and eastern Africa Though more known from the Pliocene and Pleistocene, it survived into the early Holocene of Morocco and Tunisia and is commonly depicted in North African rock art hunting scenes up to the Bronze Age. It was extremely similar to the northern white rhinoceros C. simum cottoni in size, proportions, and dentition, and has been treated as its direct ancestor, a subspecies (though cottoni is now recognized as a subspecies of C. simum itself), or synonymous with it.[18][29][30]
Southern black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis bicornis Southwestern Africa Disappeared from the
IUCN considers the south-western black rhinoceros (D. b. occidentalis) from Namibia and Angola, used to re-stock South Africa, to be the same subspecies. If this is followed, the taxon D. b. bicornis is not extinct.[32]
Western black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis longipes Burkina Faso to South Sudan An investigation into the last known location in Cameroon in 2006 found abundant evidence of wildlife poaching and no sign of rhinoceroses except that faked by local rhinoceros monitors. There have been no sightings or other evidence afterward.[33]
Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
North-eastern black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis brucii Horn of Africa to eastern Sudan and Bahr el Ghazal Considered probably extinct by 2011.[34]
Extinct in the wild
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Northern white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum cottoni Upper Chari, Ubangi, and White Nile river basins The last four wild animals were sighted in 2006 and the last indirect sign of their presence was detected in 2007, both under an uptick of poaching in the region.[35] In 2009,[36] the last four captive rhinos were moved from the Safari Park Dvůr Králové in the Czech Republic to a private reserve in Kenya, outside of the subspecies's recent range, but the two males died without breeding. The last remaining individuals are a mother and a daughter and attempts at artificial insemination have been unsuccessful.[35]

Even-toed ungulates (order
Artiodactyla
)

Pigs (family Suidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Cape warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus aethiopicus Cape Province, South Africa Last known individual killed in 1871.[37]

Right and bowhead whales (family Balaenidae)

Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic and western Mediterranean Sea Possibly calved in the Mediterranean in ancient times. Probable remains were found in Roman archaeological sites at Tetouan and
Açores[40] and Canary Islands.[41]

Gray whales (family Eschrichtiidae)

Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Gray whale Eschrichtius robustus North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and northern Pacific Ocean Possibly calved in the Mediterranean in ancient times. Remains were found in Tetouan dating to 71–245 CE.[38] A vagrant from the North Pacific population was seen off the coast of Namibia in May 2013.[42][43]

True deer (family Cervidae)

Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Megaceroides algericus Northern Maghreb Most recent remains dated to 4691-4059 BCE in Bizmoune, Morocco.[44]
Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Persian fallow deer Dama mesopotamica Middle East
Predynastic to the Ptolemaic period, and remains of Persian fallow deer have been found in archaeological sites of the eastern Nile Delta dating mostly to the 14th-10th centuries BCE. However, the autochthonous nature of these animals is controversial, as is the presence of other deer species like red deer or chital in Ancient Egypt.[3][45][46]

Cattle, goats, antelopes, and others (family Bovidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Bubal hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus North Africa and southern Levant[47] Last animal in Tunisia was killed in 1902 near
oases of the western desert[3] until the early Middle Ages.[48]
Bond's springbok Antidorcas bondi Southern Africa Most recent remains at Kruger Cave, South Africa dated to 5680-5560 BCE.[26]
North African aurochs Bos primigenius mauritanicus North Africa Wild populations are assumed to have disappeared c. 4000 BCE, though genetic evidence suggests that North African aurochs underwent indigenous
domestic cattle may have caused its decrease in numbers and ultimate disappearance.[50]
Caprinae indet.
(Makapania?) 		South Africa mountains Most recent remains at Colwinton Shelter, South Africa dated to 4360-4280 BCE. The extinction coincided with changes in vegetation leading to the replacement of
grazing ungulates for browsers.[26]
 Restoration of Makapania broomi
Damaliscus hypsodon Kenya and Tanzania Most recent remains dated to after 8902-8638 BCE in Kisese II, Tanzania.[26]
Bluebuck Hippotragus leucophaeus Overberg, South Africa Fossil evidence and rock art suggests that the species was more broadly spread around southern Africa in the Pleistocene and early Holocene, but its range contracted because of climate-driven vegetation change until it was reduced to just 4300 km2 east of Cape Town. It finally disappeared around 1800 CE as a result of hunting, competition with livestock, and habitat loss and fragmentation caused by agriculture.[26]
Roberts' lechwe Kobus leche robertsi Luongo and Kalungwishi drainage systems, Luapula, Zambia Last seen between 1980 and 1985.[51]
Giant wildebeest Megalotragus priscus Southern and possibly eastern Africa Most recent remains at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa dated to 6442-6210 BCE.[26]
Kenya oribi Ourebia ourebi kenyae Lower slopes of Mount Kenya, Kenya[9]
African giant buffalo Syncerus antiquus Africa Widespread through the continent in the Pleistocene, it became restricted to North Africa in the Holocene and survived until 3060-2470 BCE. Increased aridification and competition with domestic cattle have both been suggested as causes of its extinction.[10]
Extinct in the wild
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Mohrr gazelle Nanger dama mohrr Northwestern Sahara Disappeared from the wild in 1968, being last seen in Western Sahara.[52] The first reintroduction program began in Senegal in 1984[53] and was followed by others in Morocco and Tunisia. The Tunisian project ended in failure with the death of the last animal in 2020.[52]
Scimitar oryx Oryx dammah Fringes of the Sahara The last wild population in Chad disappeared between 1988 and 1990.[54] A reintroduction program began in Tunisia in 1985.[55]
Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx Arabian Peninsula Probably lived in the north of Egypt's eastern desert during historical times.[3]

Birds (class Aves)

Landfowl (order Galliformes)

Guineafowl (family
Numididae
)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Moroccan guineafowl Numida meleagris sabyi Between the Oum er Rbia and Sebou rivers of Morocco Last recorded with certainty in the wild in the 1950s. It succumbed to habitat destruction and over-hunting. Reports of a captive population in the 1980s are unsubstantiated.[56]

Bustards (order Otidiformes)

Bustards (family Otididae)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Moroccan bustard Ardeotis arabs lynesi Western Morocco Last recorded at Lakes Merzouga and Tamezguidat between 1987 and 1993. All Arabian bustard subspecies declined due to hunting and habitat destruction.[56]

Shorebirds (order Charadriiformes)

Oystercatchers (family Haematopodidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Canary Islands oystercatcher Haematopus meadewaldoi Canary Islands to the coast of Senegal Last recorded in Senegal between 1968 and 1981. Its decline was probably a result of overharvesting of intertidal invertebrates and disturbance by people, although predation by rats and cats has also been implicated.[57]

Sandpipers (order Scolopacidae)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Slender-billed curlew Numenius tenuirostris North Africa and Western Eurasia The species breeds in
Mediterranean area and south Arabia,[58] but has declined due to intense hunting in the wintering grounds and habitat destruction in the breeding grounds. Slender-billed curlews were regular visitors to Merja Zerga, Morocco until 1995.[56]

Auks (family Alcidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Great auk Pinguinus impennis Northern Atlantic and western Mediterranean A bone found in El Harhoura 2, Morocco was dated to 5050-3850 BCE.[59] This is the second southernmost record of this species in the eastern Atlantic, after another bone from Madeira.[60] The species became extinct globally in 1852.[61]

Hawks and relatives (order Accipitriformes)

Hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures (family Accipitridae)

Locally extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Spanish imperial eagle Aquila adalberti Southwestern
Iberia and northwestern Morocco[62]
 Could have disappeared as a breeder from Morocco before 1950,
Moulouya river in 1977. Vagrant juveniles still visit the northern part of the country from the Guadalquivir marshes[64] and are sometimes killed in unprotected power lines.[63]
Red kite Milvus milvus Europe and the Mediterranean region Last bred in Morocco in 2004, although small numbers can be seen in the winter. Its presence in other African countries is at best uncertain.[65]

Passerines (order Passeriformes)

Cisticolas and allies (family Cisticolidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Northern white-winged apalis Apalis chariessa chariessa Lower Tana River, Kenya Last recorded in 1961, when the forests of Mitole were cleared.[56]

Reptiles (class Reptilia)

Squamates (order Squamata)

Plated lizards (family Gerrhosauridae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Eastwood's long-tailed seps Tetradactylus eastwoodae Limpopo, South Africa Last seen in 1928. Its natural habitat was destroyed by afforestation.[66]

Amphibians (class Amphibia)

Frogs (order Anura)

African torrent frogs (family Petropedetidae)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Du Toit's torrent frog Arthroleptides dutoiti Kenya-Uganda border Last recorded in 1962. It might have disappeared due to chytridiomycosis.[67]

True toads (family Bufonidae)

Possibly extinct
Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Osgood's Ethiopian toad Altiphrynoides osgoodi Mountains of south-central Ethiopia Last recorded in 2003.[68]
Extinct in the wild
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Kihansi spray toad Nectophrynoides asperginis Kihansi Falls, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Last recorded in the wild in 2004, with an unconfirmed report in 2005. The species declined due to drought, chytridiomycosis, pesticide use in maize agriculture, and possibly other causes. Nevertheless, thousands exist in captivity and a reintroduction program began with large numbers in 2012.[69]

Ray-finned fish (class Actinopterygii)

Minnows and allies (order Cypriniformes)

Carps, minnows, and relatives (family Cyprinidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Labeobarbus microbarbis Lake Luhondo, Rwanda Known from a single individual collected c. 1937, it is presumed to have become extinct in the 1950s after the introduction of
Varicorhinus instead.[70]
Giant Atlas barbel Labeobarbus reinii Northwestern Morocco Last recorded in 2001. The rivers it inhabited have been affected by pollution and damming, but the precise causes of extinction are poorly understood.[71]
Tunisian barb Luciobarbus antinorii Chott el Djerid, Tunisia Last collected in 1989. It could have disappeared due to excessive water substraction.[72]
Luciobarbus nasus Ksob river drainage, Morocco Last recorded in 1874. The river has been affected by pollution and damming, but the precise causes of extinction are poorly understood.[73]

Salmon, trout and relatives (order Salmoniformes)

Salmon, trout and relatives (family Salmonidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Lake Sidi Ali trout Salmo pallaryi Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali, Morocco Disappeared in 1934 after the introduction of the Eurasian carp.[74]

Toothcarps (order Cyprinodontiformes)

Livebearers and relatives (family Poeciliidae)

Scientific name Range Comments
Aplocheilichthys sp. nov. 'Naivasha' Lake Naivasha, Kenya Disappeared in the 1970s or 1980s due to competition with introduced fishes.[75]

Insects (class Insecta)

Butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera)

Gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae)

Common name Scientific name Range Comments
Mbashe River buff Deloneura immaculata Mbhashe River, Eastern Cape, South Africa Only known from three individuals collected "at the end of December 1863".[76]
Morant's blue Lepidochrysops hypopolia Eastern South Africa Only recorded in the 1870s.[77]

Ostracods (class Ostracoda)

Order Podocopida

Family Candonidae

Scientific name Range Comments Pictures
Namibcypris costata Southern Kaokoveld, Namibia Last recorded in 1987.[78]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The source gives "11,700 calendar yr b2k (before CE 2000)". But "BP" means "before CE 1950". Therefore, the Holocene began 11,650 BP. Doing the math, that is c. 9700 BCE.
  2. lions have disappeared from Thessaly, because hippopotamoi have been gotten rid from the marshes of the Nile."[6]
  3. ^ This study did not use Syrian brown bears for comparison.[19]

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