Earth Our Home Too : List of endangered Animals in India

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES

Birds

1. White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis)

2. Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps)

3. Forest Owlet (Athene blewitti)

4. Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri)

5. Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus)

6. Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus)

7. White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis)

8. Indian Vulture (Gyps indicus)

9. Slender-billed Vulture (Gyps tenuirostris)

10. Bengal Florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis)

11. Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa)

12. Jerdon’s Courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus)

13. Pink-headed Duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea)

14. Red-headed Vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)

15. Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)

Fish

1. Knifetooth sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata)

2. Pondicherry shark (Carcharhinus hemiodon)

3. Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus)

4. Deccan labeo (Labeo potail)

5. Largetooth sawfish (Pristis microdon)

6. Longcomb sawfish (Pristis zijsron)

Reptiles and amphibians

1. Northern river terrapin (Batagur baska)

2. Red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga)

3. Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

4. Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

5. Ghats wart frog (Fejervarya murthii)

6. Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)

7. Gundia Indian frog (Indirana gundia)

8. Toad-skinned frog (Indirana phrynoderma)

9. Charles Darwin’s frog (Ingerana charlesdarwini)

10. Rao’s torrent frog (Micrixalus kottigeharensis)

11. Amboli bush frog (Pseudophilautus amboli)

12. White-spotted bush frog (Raorchestes chalazodes)

13. Griet bush frog (Raorchestes griet)

14. Munnar bush frog (Raorchestes munnarensis)

15. Ponmudi bush frog (Raorchestes ponmudi)

16. Sacred Grove bush frog (Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus)

17. Shillong bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes shillongensis)

18. Anaimalai flying frog (Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus)

Mammals

1. Namdapha flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi)

2. Himalayan wolf  (“Canis himalayensis“)

3. Kashmir stag (Cervus canadensis hanglu)

4. Elvira rat (Cremnomys elvira)

5. Andaman shrew (Crocidura andamanensis)

6. Jenkins’ shrew (Crocidura jenkinsi)

7. Nicobar shrew (Crocidura nicobarica)

8. Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

9. Kondana soft-furred rat (Millardia kondana)

10. Pygmy hog (Porcula salvania)

11. Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)

12. Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina)

ENDANGERED

Fish

• Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus)

Birds

• Narcondam Hornbill (Rhyticeros narcondami)

Mammals

• Red panda (Ailurus fulgens)

• Central Kashmir vole (Alticola montosa)

• Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

• Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)

• Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

• Gaur (Bos gaurus)

• Yak (Bos grunniens)

• Banteng (Bos javanicus)

• Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

• Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)

• Wild goat (Capra aegagrus)

• Markhor (Capra falconeri)

• Hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus)

• Dhole (Cuon alpinus)

• Dugong (Dugong dugon)

• Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)

• Woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus)

• Hoolock gibbons (Hoolock spp.)

• Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)

• Stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides)

• Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)

• Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii)

• Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)

• Servant mouse (Mus famulus)

• Mandelli’s mouse-eared bat (Myotis sicarius)

• Red goral (Naemorhedus baileyi)

• Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)

• Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius)

• Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)

• Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii)

• Marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata)

• Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)

• Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)

• Rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus)

• Nicobar flying fox (Pteropus faunulus)

• Palm rat (Rattus palmarum)

• Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii)

• Four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis)

• Gee’s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei)

• Nilgiri langur (Trachypithecus johnii)

• Nicobar treeshrew (Tupaia nicobarica)

• Snow leopard (Uncia uncia)

• Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus)

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