kabonfootprint list of extinct asia mammals
Posted: August 7th, 2008 | Author: seodude | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bali tiger, extinct mammals, javan tiger, kabonfootprint, Panthera, tiger |
According to wikipedia there are so many extinct mammals in this world, kabonfootprint together with cegah satwa punah team will try to describe one of them post by post. Below is the list of an extinct mammals found in Asia.
* Eurasian Aurochs, Bos primigenius primigenius (Unknown date, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, south Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea)
* Indian Aurochs, Bos primigenius namadicus (Unknown date, Indian subcontinent)
* Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius (around 1500 BC, Wrangel Island)
* Syrian elephant, Elephas maximus asurus (100 BC, Middle East)
* Chinese elephant, Elephas maximus rubridens (15th century BC, East China)
* Northern Sumatran Rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis (Bangladesh, India, survives maybe in Myanmar)
* Hokkaid? Wolf, Canis lupus hattai (1889, North Japan)
* Honsh? Wolf, Canis lupus hodophilax (1905, South Japan)
* Schomburgk’s Deer, Cervus schomburgki (1938, Southeast Asia)
* Bali Tiger, Panthera tigris balica (1937, Bali island, Indonesia)
* Caspian Tiger, Panthera tigris virgata (1980s, European Russia, Transcaucasia, south Ukraine (possible), Kurdistan, northern Iran, Afghanistan, Russian and Chinese Turkistan, western Mongolia, south Siberia)
* Java Tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica (1980s, Java island, Indonesia)
* Panay Giant Fruit Bat, Acerodon lucifer (Philippines)
* Negros Naked-backed Fruit Bat, Dobsonia chapmani (Philippines)
* Sturdee’s Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus sturdeei (Japan)
* Syrian Wild Ass, Equus hemionus hemippus (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria)
* Arabian Gazelle, Gazella arabica (possible Saudi Arabia)
* Queen of Sheba’s Gazelle, Gazella bilkis (Yemen)
* Steller’s Sea Cow, Hydrodamalis gigas (1768, Russian Federation, United States)
* Verhoeven’s Giant Tree Rat, Papagomys theodorverhoeveni (Indonesia)
* Flores Long-nosed Rat, Paulamys naso (Indonesia)
* Dangs Giant Squirrel, Ratufa indica dealbata (India)
* Flores Cave Rat, Spelaeomys florensis (Indonesia)
* Formosan Clouded Leopard, Neofelis nebulosa brachyura (1983, Taiwan)
* Cebu Warty Pig, Sus cebifrons cebifrons (Philippines)
* Japanese Sea Lion, Zalophus japonicus (Japan, South Korea, North Korea)
* Chinese River Dolphin (Baiji), Lipotes vexillifer (2006, Yangtze River, China)
* Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus, Phanourios minutis (Cyprus)
From the list above what kabonfootprint team really make sad is the extinct of Bali and Javan Tiger. As you know, kabonfootprint community is from East Java Indonesian, and these Javan Tiger or Panthera tigris sondaica extinct about 1980s, Java island, Indonesia which is almost 28 years ago. Bali Tiger or Panthera tigris balica which extict on 1937, Bali island, Indonesia.
If you have some of opinion or another good resource about tiger or other animal which is need to protected, kabonfootprint team invite you to follow this post or send an article to us. Your effort surely will help hundreds of animal from being extinct just like Bali Tiger and Javan Tiger.
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