List of New Zealand animals extinct in the Holocene


This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of New Zealand. This list covers only extinctions from the Holocene epoch.

Mammals

Bats are the only land mammals known to have inhabited New Zealand before humans arrived. Fossil marine mammals have been found.
Common nameScientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Greater short-tailed batMystacina robusta1965New Zealand--

The "New Zealand Sealion" - the mainland species of Sealion. Bones found in Moa Hunter middens.
The "Chatham Island Sealion" - the Chatham species of Sealion. Known to have been made extinct by hunting.

Birds

Extinctions since 19th-century European settlement

Extinctions since Māori arrival

Reptiles

Annelida (Oligochaeta) Earthworms