List of near threatened mammals

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2 extinct in the wild mammalian species (0.03%)203 critically endangered mammalian species (3.5%)505 endangered mammalian species (8.7%)536 vulnerable mammalian species (9.3%)345 near threatened mammalian species (6.0%)3306 least concern mammalian species (57%)872 data deficient mammalian species (15%)
Mammalian species (IUCN, 2020-1)
  • 5850 extant species have been evaluated
  • 4978 of those are fully assessed[a]
  • 3651 are not threatened at present[b]
  • 1244 to 2116 are threatened[c]
  • 81 to 83 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
    • 81 extinct (EX) species[d]
    • 2 extinct in the wild (EW)
    • 0 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]
    • 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR(PEW)]

  1. ^ excludes data deficient evaluations.
  2. ^ NT and LC.
  3. ^ Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
  4. ^ Chart omits extinct (EX) species
Near threatened (NT) species do not currently qualify for critically endangered (CR), endangered (EN) or vulnerable (VU) statuses, but are likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future, or already close to qualifying.

In September 2016, the

mammalian species.[1]
Of all evaluated mammalian species, 6.2% are listed as near threatened. The IUCN also lists 31 mammalian subspecies as near threatened.

Of the subpopulations of mammals evaluated by the IUCN, one species subpopulation and one subspecies subpopulation have been assessed as near threatened.

This is a complete list of near threatened mammalian species and subspecies evaluated by the IUCN. Species and subspecies which have near threatened 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

  • White rhinoceros
  • Onager
  • Plains zebra

Subspecies

  • Mongolian wild ass
  • Indian wild ass

Primates

Species

  • Black-fronted titi
  • Shock-headed capuchin
  • Assam macaque
  • Tibetan macaque
  • Guinea baboon
  • White-thighed surili
  • Golden-mantled tamarin
  • Bare-eared squirrel monkey
  • Black capuchin
  • Tarai gray langur
  • Tufted gray langur
  • Philippine tarsier
  • Campbell's mona monkey
  • Mona monkey

Subspecies

Cetartiodactyls

Cetartiodactyla includes dolphins, whales and even-toed ungulates. There are 31 species, eight subspecies, one subpopulations of species, and one subpopulations of subspecies of cetartiodactyl assessed as near threatened.

Non-cetacean even-toed ungulates

There are 26 species and eight subspecies of non-cetacean even-toed ungulate assessed as near threatened.

Suids

Species

  • Celebes warty pig

Subspecies

  • Sus barbatus oi

Deer
species

  • Tufted deer
  • Bornean yellow muntjac
  • Pampas deer
  • Southern pudú

Subspecies

  • Alaska moose

Bovids

Species

  • American bison
  • Eastern tur
  • Markhor
  • Mainland serow
  • Red serow
  • Himalayan serow
  • Bay duiker
  • White-bellied duiker
  • Yellow-backed duiker
  • Himalayan tahr
  • Puku
  • Gerenuk
  • Himalayan goral
  • Argali
  • Tibetan antelope
  • Goa
  • African buffalo
  • Bongo
  • Lesser kudu

Subspecies

  • Western hartebeest
  • Cephalophus ogilbyi crusalbum
  • Coastal topi
  • Damaliscus pygargus pygargus
  • Defassa waterbuck
  • Oryx beisa beisa
  • Lowland bongo

Cetaceans

Species

  • Chilean dolphin

Subpopulations of species

  • Bowhead whale
    (1 subpopulation)

Subpopulations of subspecies

  • Northern blue whale
    (1 subpopulation)

Marsupials

There are 41 marsupial species assessed as near threatened.

Diprotodontia

  • Eastern bettong
  • Boodie
  • Bennett's tree-kangaroo
  • Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo
  • Small dorcopsis
  • Lemur-like ringtail possum
  • Southern hairy-nosed wombat
  • Black wallaroo
  • Parma wallaby
  • Yellow-bellied glider
  • Monjon
  • Godman's rock-wallaby
  • Mareeba rock-wallaby
  • Purple-necked rock-wallaby
  • Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
  • Long-nosed potoroo
  • D'Albertis' ringtail possum
  • Plush-coated ringtail possum
  • Cinereus ringtail possum
  • Admiralty Island cuscus
  • Scaly-tailed possum

Shrew opossums

  • Gray-bellied caenolestid
  • Long-nosed caenolestid

Microbiotheria

  • Monito del monte

Dasyuromorphia

Includes most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials.

  • New Guinean quoll
  • Western quoll
  • Bronze quoll
  • Broad-striped dasyure
  • Red-tailed phascogale
  • Brush-tailed phascogale
  • Kakadu dunnart
  • Julia Creek dunnart

Opossums

Carnivora

Species

  • African clawless otter
  • Congo clawless otter
  • Short-eared dog
  • Olinguito
  • Jackson's mongoose
  • Asian golden cat
  • Maned wolf
  • Steller sea lion
  • Johnston's genet
  • Aquatic genet
  • Banded palm civet
  • Short-tailed mongoose
  • Collared mongoose
  • Striped hyena
  • Spotted-necked otter
  • Colocolo
  • Margay
  • Neotropical otter
  • European otter
  • Sechuran fox
  • Mountain weasel
  • Japanese weasel
  • Western mountain coati
  • Pallas's cat
  • Jaguar
  • Brown hyena
  • Marbled cat
  • Rusty-spotted cat
  • Bush dog
  • Island fox

Subspecies

  • Atlantic walrus

Afrosoricida

Includes tenrecs and golden moles.

  • Fynbos golden mole
  • Highveld golden mole
  • Nimba otter shrew

Eulipotyphla

  • Asiatic short-tailed shrew
  • Malayan water shrew
  • Smith's shrew
  • Buettikofer's shrew
  • Large-headed forest shrew
  • Nimba shrew
  • Niobe's shrew
  • Sado mole
  • Babault's mouse shrew
  • Sclater's mouse shrew
  • Greater large-headed shrew
  • Alpine shrew
  • Volcano shrew

Lagomorpha

Rabbits and relatives

  • White-sided jackrabbit
  • Black jackrabbit
  • Yarkand hare
  • European rabbit
  • Appalachian cottontail

Rodents

There are 106 rodent species assessed as near threatened.

Hystricomorpha

("Porcupine-like")

  • Argentine tuco-tuco
  • D'Orbigny's tuco-tuco
  • Emily's tuco-tuco
  • Pearson's tuco-tuco
  • Porteous's tuco-tuco
  • Mountain paca
  • Orinoco agouti
  • Patagonian mara
  • Ansell's mole-rat
  • Shipton's mountain cavy
  • Prehensile-tailed hutia
  • Moon-toothed degu
  • Pacific spiny rat
  • Elias' Atlantic spiny rat
  • Plains viscacha rat

Myomorpha

There are 63 species in Myomorpha assessed as near threatened.

Murids

Includes mice, rats, gerbils, and relatives.

  • Caucasus field mouse
  • Blick's grass rat
  • Luzon hairy-tailed rat
  • Inland hill rat
  • Isarog striped shrew-rat
  • Mindoro striped rat
  • Forest thicket rat
  • Greater stick-nest rat
  • Short-tailed brush-furred rat
  • Elegant margareta rat
  • Broad-toothed mouse
  • Oldfield white-bellied rat
  • Fawn hopping mouse
  • Flores giant rat
  • Lowland brush mouse
  • Heath mouse
  • Sula rat
  • Spiny Ceram rat
  • Japen rat
  • Mount Data shrew rat
  • Masked white-tailed rat
  • Bismarck giant rat

Cricetids

Includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice.

  • Gray akodont
  • Sanborn's grass mouse
  • Cochabamba grass mouse
  • Royle's mountain vole
  • Red tree vole
  • California red tree mouse
  • Torres's crimson-nosed rat
  • Large long-clawed mouse
  • Ward's red-backed vole
  • Crested-tailed deer mouse
  • Cloud forest rice rat
  • Large-headed rice rat
  • True's vole
  • Crab-eating rat
  • Yellow isthmus rat
  • Turkish hamster
  • Romanian hamster
  • Cabrera's vole
  • Guatemalan vole
  • Taiwan vole
  • Jalapan pine vole
  • Sakhalin vole
  • Schelkovnikov's pine vole
  • Dark bolo mouse
  • Diminutive woodrat
  • Allegheny woodrat
  • Sonoran woodrat
  • Big deer mouse
  • Chihuahuan mouse
  • Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse
  • Long-clawed mole vole
  • Brazilian arboreal mouse
  • Thomas's water mouse
  • Slender Oldfield mouse
  • Szechuan vole

Spalacids

  • Balkan mole-rat
  • Kazakhstan blind mole-rat

Dipodids

  • Euphrates jerboa
  • Vinogradov's jerboa
  • Greater fat-tailed jerboa
  • Kluchor birch mouse

Castorimorpha

("Beaver-like")

  • Goldman's pocket mouse
  • Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
  • Desert pocket gopher

Sciuromorpha

There are 25 species in Sciuromorpha assessed as near threatened.

Sciurids

Squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, susliks and prairie dogs

  • Groove-toothed flying squirrel
  • Ear-spot squirrel
  • Black-striped squirrel
  • Anderson's squirrel
  • Sierra Madre ground squirrel
  • Palawan flying squirrel
  • Mentawai three-striped squirrel
  • Swynnerton's bush squirrel
  • Bhutan giant flying squirrel
  • Cream-coloured giant squirrel
  • Black giant squirrel
  • Grizzled giant squirrel
  • Shrew-faced squirrel
  • Richmond's squirrel
  • Caucasian mountain ground squirrel (Spermophilus musicus)
  • Speckled ground squirrel
  • Asia Minor ground squirrel
  • Horse-tailed squirrel
  • Culion tree squirrel
  • Bangs's mountain squirrel
  • Complex-toothed flying squirrel
  • Washington ground squirrel

Dormice

  • Garden dormouse

Cingulata

  • Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
  • Southern long-nosed armadillo
  • Llanos long-nosed armadillo
  • Southern three-banded armadillo
  • Pichi

Bats

There are 79 bat species assessed as near threatened.

Megabats

  • Panniet naked-backed fruit bat
  • Dayak fruit bat
  • Straw-coloured fruit bat
  • Philippine dawn bat
  • Angolan epauletted fruit bat
  • Bismarck masked flying fox
  • Moluccan flying fox
  • Ryukyu flying fox
  • Pelew flying fox
  • Little golden-mantled flying fox
  • Solomons flying fox
  • Samoa flying fox
  • Large flying fox
  • Madagascan rousette
  • Pohle's fruit bat
  • Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat

Microbats

There are 63 microbat species assessed as near threatened.

Old World leaf-nosed bats

  • Hipposideros commersoni
  • Borneo roundleaf bat
  • Jones's roundleaf bat
  • Large Asian roundleaf bat
  • Peleng leaf-nosed bat
  • Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
  • Striped leaf-nosed bat

Horseshoe bats

  • Decken's horseshoe bat
  • Mediterranean horseshoe bat
  • Formosan woolly horseshoe bat
  • Upland horseshoe bat
  • Peninsular horseshoe bat
  • Large rufous horseshoe bat
  • Lesser wooly horseshoe bat

Vesper bats

  • Barbastelle
  • Van Gelder's bat
  • Large-eared pied bat
  • Little pied bat
  • Mexican big-eared bat
  • Harmless serotine
  • Western false pipistrelle
  • Thomas's big-eared brown bat
  • Small woolly bat
  • Least woolly bat
  • Clear-winged woolly bat
  • Pfeiffer's red bat
  • Taiwan tube-nosed bat
  • Bechstein's bat
  • Far Eastern myotis
  • Pond bat
  • Gray bat
  • Pallid large-footed myotis
  • Schwartz's myotis
  • Rickett's big-footed bat
  • Ridley's bat
  • Red myotis
  • Indiana bat
  • Dark-brown serotine
  • Birdlike noctule
  • Cuban evening bat
  • Groove-toothed bat
  • Taiwan big-eared bat

Leaf-nosed bats

  • Mexican long-tongued bat
  • Honduran white bat
  • Lesser long-nosed bat
  • Western nectar bat
  • Long-snouted bat
  • Platyrrhinus ismaeli
  • Matapalo broad-nosed bat
  • Hairy little fruit bat
  • Red fruit bat
  • Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat
  • Spectral bat

Other microbat species

  • Cuban funnel-eared bat
  • Bahaman funnel-eared bat
  • Common bent-wing bat
  • Malayan free-tailed bat
  • Peterson's free-tailed bat
  • Brazilian funnel-eared bat
  • Hispaniolan greater funnel-eared bat
  • Malayan slit-faced bat
  • Large-eared free-tailed bat
  • Coastal sheath-tailed bat

Other mammal species

  • Dendrohyrax validus
  • Platypus
  • Checkered elephant shrew

See also

References

  1. ^ "IUCN Red List version 2016-2". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.