List of extinct animals of Oceania
This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of Oceania. This list covers only extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geological period that extends from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130 calendar years BP. For the extinct animals of Australia, Hawaiian Islands and New Zealand this is a list for the animals not found in these parts of Oceania.
Mammals
Possibly extinctCommon name\scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
Aru flying fox Pteropus aruensis | 1800s | Aru, Indonesia | -- |
Emma's giant rat Uromys emmae | 1944 | Papua, Indonesia | -- |
New Guinea big-eared bat Pharotis imogene | 1890 | Papua New Guinea | -- |
Telefomin cuscus Phalanger matanim | 1998 | Papua New Guinea | -- |
Vanikoro flying fox Pteropus tuberculatus | Before 1930 | Vanikoro, Solomon Islands | -- |
Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus mayri | 1928 | Papua, Indonesia | -- |
Birds
Possibly extinctCommon name\scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
New Caledonian lorikeet Charmosyna diadema | 1860 | France | |
New Caledonian rail Gallirallus lafresnayanus | 1860 | France | |
Pohnpei starling Aplonis pelzelni | 1995 | Pohnpei, Micronesia | -- |
Samoan wood rail Gallinula pacifica | 1873 | Samoa | |
Ua Pou monarch Pomarea mira | 1985 | France | -- |