List of endangered animals in India
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India's Red List of 2018 was released at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. It contained 132 species of plants and animals considered endangered in India.[1][2][3]
Critically endangered animals
Arthropods
- Rameshwaram parachute spider (Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica)
- Peacock tarantula (Poecilotheria metallia)
Insects
- Pygmy hog-suckin' louse (Haematopinus oliveri)
Birds
- White-bellied heron (Ardea insignis)
- Great Indian bustard (Ardeotis niriceps)
- Baer's pochard (Aythya baeri)
- Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea)
- White-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
- Indian vulture (Gyps indicus)
- Slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris)
- Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis)
- Bugun liocichla (Liocichla bugunorum)
- Himalayan quail (Ophrysia superciliosa)
- Jerdon's courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus)
- Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
- Sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
- Christmas Island frigatebird(Fregata andrewsi)
- Pink-headed duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea)
- Yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola)
- Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus)
- Forest owlet (Athene blewitti)
- Lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus)
Fish
- Wayanad mahseer (Barbodes wynaadensis)
- Pondicherry shark (Carcharhinus hemiodon)
- Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus)
- Glyptothorax kashmirensis
- Kudremukh glyptothorax (Glyptothorax kudremukhensis)
- Nilgiri mystus(Hemibagrus punctatus )
- Horalabiosa arunachalami
- Hypselobarbus pulchellus
- Red Canarese barb(Hypselobarbus thomassi)
- Mesonoemacheilus herrei
- Bovany barb(Neolissochilus bovanicus)
- Deolali minnow (Parapsilorhynchus prateri) possibly extinct
- Pookode Lake barb (Pethia pookodensis)
- Common sawfish(Pristis pristis)
- Largetooth sawfish (Pristis microdon)
- Longcomb sawfish (Pristis zijsron)
- Psilorhynchus tenura
- Deccan barb (Puntius deccanensis)
- Schistura papulifera
Reptiles and amphibians
- Madras spotted skink (Barkudia insularis)
- Northern river terrapin (Batagur baska)
- Red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga)
- Cnemaspis anaikattiensis
- Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
- Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)
- Ghats wart frog(Fejervarya murthii)
- Jeypore ground gecko(Geckoella jeyporensis)
- Gundia Indian frog (Indirana gundia)
- Toad-skinned frog(Indirana phrynoderma)
- Rao's torrt frog (Micrixalus kottigeharensis)
- Charles Darwin's frog(Minervarya charlesdarwini)
- Dattatreya night frog (Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis)
- Sacred grove bushfrog(Philautus sanctisilvaticus)
- Amboli bush frog (Pseudophilautus amboli)
- White-spotted bush frog (Raorchestes chalazodes)
- Green eyed bushfrog (Raorchestes chlorosomma)
- Griet bush frog (Raorchestes griet)
- Kaikatti bushfrog (Raorchestes kaikatti)
- Mark's bushfrog (Raorchestes marki)
- Munnar bush frog (Raorchestes munnarensis)
- Ponmudi bush frog (Raorchestes ponmudi)
- Resplendent shrubfrog (Raorchestes resplendens)
- Shillong bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes shillongensis)
- Anaimalai flying frog (Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus)
- Sushil's bushfrog (Raorchestes sushili)
- Amboli toad (Xanthophryne tigerina)
- Ghats wart frog(Zakerana murthii)
Mammals
- Namdapha flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi)
- Elvira rat (Cremnomys elvira)
- Andaman shrew (Crocidura andamanensis)
- Jenkins' shrew(Crocidura jenkinsi)
- Nicobar shrew (Crocidura nicobarica)
- Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
- Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina)
- Kashmir stag or hangul (Cervus canadensis hanglu)
Endangered animals
Fish
- Knifetooth sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata)
- Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus)
- Red line torpedo barb(Sahyadria denisonii)
- Golden mahaseer (Tor putitora)
- Deccan labeo(Labeo potail)
Birds
- Steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis)
- Great knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
- Masked finfoot (Heliopais personatus)
- Manipur bush-quail(Perdicula manipurensis)
- Greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius)
- White-bellied blue robin (Myiomela albiventris)
- Nilgiri blue robin (Myiomela major)
- White-winged duck (Asarcornis scutulata)
- White-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
- Green peafowl (Pavo muticus)
- Narcondam hornbill (Rhyticero)
- Nordmann's greenshank (Tringa guttifer)
- Black-bellied tern (Sterna acuticauda)
- Black-chinned laughingthrush (Trochalopteron jerdoni)
- Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
Reptiles
- Perrotet's vine snake (Ahaetulla perroteti)
- Three-striped roofed turtle (Batagur dhongoka)
- Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra indica
- Goan day gecko (Cnemaspis goaensis)
- Wyanad day gecko(Cnemaspis wynadensis)
- Keeled box turtle (Cuora mouhotii)
- Boulenger's dasia(Dasia subcaerulea)
- Poona skink (Eurylepis poonaensis)
- Inger's mabuya (Eutropis clivicola)
- Yellow-headed tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
- Asian forest tortoise (Manouria emys)
- Indian kangaroo lizard(Otocryptis beddomii)
- Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis)
- Cantor's giant softshell turtle(Pelochelys cantorii)
- Travancore Hills thorntail snake (Platyplectrurus madurensis)
- Travancore earth snake (Rhinophis travancoricus)
- Cochin forest cane turtle(Vijayachelys silvatica)
Mammals
- Red panda (Ailurus fulgens)
- Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
- Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
- Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
- Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
- Hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus)
- Dhole (Cuon alpinus)
- Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus)
- Kolar leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros hypophyllus)
- Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)
- White-bellied musk deer (Moschus leucogaster)
- Servant mouse (Mus famulus)
- Mandelli's mouse-eared bat (Myotis sicarius)
- Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius)
- Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica)
- Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
- Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)
- Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei)
- Nicobar treeshrew (Tupaia nicobarica)
- Sangai (Rucervus eldii eldii)
Vulnerable animals
Listed by the IUCN As of 2012[update]:[4]
Mammals
- Brown bear (Ursus arctos)
- Gaur (Bos gaurus)
- Four-horned antelope or chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis)
- Oriental small-clawed otter(Aonyx cinerea)
- White-chested bear(Ursus thibetanus)
- Yak (Bos grunhniens)
- Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
- Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii)
- Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
- Dugong (Dugong dugon)
- Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus)
- Stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides)
- Marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata)
- Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
- Rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus)
- Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
- Snow leopard (Uncia uncia)
- Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii)
- Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)
Birds
- Sarus crane (Antigone)
- Nicobar megapode (Megapodius nicobariensis)
- Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)
Reptiles and amphibians
- Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
See also
- Critically Endangered
- Endangered mammals of India
- Endangered species
- Fauna of India
- List of amphibians of India
- List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of birds of India
- List of endemic and threatened plants of India
- List of mammals of India
- List of reptiles of South Asia
- Lists of extinct species
- Vulnerable species
References
- ^ Red list has 132 species of plants, animals from India
- ^ "News". Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ^ Extinction threat 'a call to world leaders' at Rio Earth Summit
- ^ "Endangered Mammal List". Wildlife Institute of India (WII). Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
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