List of near threatened mammals
- Extinct, since 1500: 78 species
- Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species
- Critically endangered (CR): 209 species
- Endangered (EN): 481 species
- Vulnerable (VU): 507 species
- Near threatened (NT): 324 species
- Least concern (LC): 3,111 species
- Data deficient (DD): 790 species
As of February 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 324 near threatened mammalian species.[1] 5.9% of all evaluated mammalian species are listed as near threatened. The IUCN also lists 29 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 as evaluated by the IUCN. Species or 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
Subspecies
Primates
There are 22 primate species and 21 primate subspecies assessed as near threatened.
Old World monkeys
Species
Subspecies
- Cercocebus atys atys
- Lomami river blue monkey
- Lomami river wolf's monkey
- Cordier's Angola colobus
- Northern black mangabey
- Eastern assamese macaque
- Western assamese macaque
- Philippine long-tailed macaque
- Robinson's banded langur
- Yellow-handed mitered langur
- Lyon's pale-thighed langur
- Chasen's pale-thighed langur
- Malayan pale-thighed langur
- Thollon's red colobus
- Madras gray langur
- Trachypithecus cristatus cristatus
New World monkeys
Species
- Black-fronted titi
- Wied's marmoset
- Shock-headed capuchin
- Golden-mantled tamarin
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Black capuchin
Subspecies
- Feline night monkey
- Graell's black-mantle tamarin
- Colombian squirrel monkey
Other primate species
Cetartiodactyls
There are 25 cetartiodactyl species and six cetartiodactyl subspecies assessed as near threatened. There are also subpopulations of cetartiodactyl species and subspecies assessed as near threatened. Cetartiodactyla includes dolphins, whales and even-toed ungulates.
Non-cetacean even-toed ungulates
There are 20 non-cetacean even-toed ungulate species and six non-cetacean even-toed ungulate subspecies assessed as near threatened.
Suids
Deer species
Bovids
Species
Subspecies
- Western hartebeest
- Coastal topi
- Damaliscus pygargus pygargus
- Defassa waterbuck
- Oryx beisa beisa
- Lowland bongo
Cetaceans
Species
Subpopulations and stocks
- Bowhead whale (1 subpopulation)
- Northern blue whale (1 subpopulation)
Marsupials
There are 33 marsupial species assessed as near threatened.
Diprotodontia
- Eastern bettong
- Boodie
- Bennett's tree-kangaroo
- Small dorcopsis
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Black wallaroo
- Parma wallaby
- Monjon
- Cape York rock-wallaby
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
- Mount Claro rock-wallaby
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- D'Albertis' ringtail possum
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Admiralty Island cuscus
Dasyuromorphia
Includes most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials.
Other marsupial species
Afrosoricida
Includes tenrecs and golden moles.
Carnivora
- African clawless otter
- Congo clawless otter
- Hog badger
- Short-eared dog
- Jackson's mongoose
- Asian golden cat
- Maned wolf
- Steller sea lion
- Sand cat
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Aquatic genet
- Banded palm civet
- Collared mongoose
- Striped hyena
- Spotted-necked otter
- Colocolo
- Margay
- Neotropical otter
- European otter
- Mountain weasel
- Pallas's cat
- Jaguar
- Leopard
- Brown hyena
- Marbled cat
- Sechuran fox
- Bush dog
- Island fox
- Large Indian civet
Eulipotyphla
Lagomorpha
Rabbits and relatives
Cingulata
Rodents
There are 102 rodent species assessed as near threatened.
Hystricomorpha
("Porcupine-like")
Myomorpha
There are 62 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
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat
- Forest thicket rat
- Short-tailed brush-furred rat
- Elegant margareta rat
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Black-footed tree-rat
- Oldfield white-bellied rat
- Flores giant rat
- Lowland brush mouse
- Heath mouse
- Sula rat
- Spiny Ceram rat
- Japen rat
- Mount Data shrew rat
- Bismarck giant rat
- Arnhem Land rock rat
Spalacids
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
Dipodids
Castorimorpha
("Beaver-like")
Sciuromorpha
There are 24 species in Sciuromorpha assessed as near threatened.
Sciurids
Squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, susliks and prairie dogs
- Groove-toothed flying squirrel
- Black-striped squirrel
- Anderson's squirrel
- Palawan flying squirrel
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel
- Swynnerton's bush squirrel
- Bhutan giant flying squirrel
- Travancore flying squirrel
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel
- Black giant squirrel
- Grizzled giant squirrel
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Richmond's squirrel
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- Caucasian mountain ground squirrel (Spermophilus musicus)
- Speckled ground squirrel
- Washington ground squirrel
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Horse-tailed squirrel
- Culion tree squirrel
- Bangs's mountain squirrel
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
Dormice
Bats
There are 83 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
- Ashy-headed flying fox
- 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 66 microbat species assessed as near threatened.
Old World leaf-nosed bats
Horseshoe bats
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
- Atacama myotis
- Bechstein's bat
- Far Eastern myotis
- Pond bat
- Gray bat
- Pallid large-footed myotis
- Rickett's big-footed bat
- Felten's myotis
- Ridley's bat
- Red myotis
- Dark-brown serotine
- Birdlike noctule
- Greater noctule bat
- Cuban evening bat
- Groove-toothed bat
- Taiwan big-eared bat
Leaf-nosed bats
- Handley's tailless bat
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Honduran white bat
- Lonchophylla concava
- Dekeyser's nectar bat
- Western nectar bat
- Long-snouted bat
- Platyrrhinus matapalensis
- Hairy little fruit bat
- Aratathomas's yellow-shouldered bat
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat
- Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat
- Spectral bat
Other microbat species
Elephant shrews
Hyraxes
- Dendrohyrax validus
See also
- List of least concern mammals
- List of vulnerable mammals
- List of endangered mammals
- List of critically endangered mammals
- List of recently extinct mammals
- List of data deficient mammals
References
- ↑ "IUCN Red List version 2015.4". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 19 February 2016.