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 extinct
Common name\scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
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 extinct
Common name\scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
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 --

Reptiles

Insects

Mollusks