List of European species extinct in the Holocene
The list of extinct animals in Europe features the animals that have become extinct in the European Union (EU) and the rest of the European continent.
Pleistocene Extinctions
Global Holocene Extinctions
Mammals
- Aurochs (1627, Poland)
- Balearic Cave Goat (c.3000 BC, Majorca, Minorca, Spain)
- Balearic Giant Shrew (Majorca, Minorca, Spain)
- Caucasian Wisent (1927, Caucasian Mountains)
- Carpathian Wisent (1790, Carpathian Mountains)
- Corsican Giant shrew (Corsica, France)
- Corsican Pika (1800, Corsica, France
- Cretan Dwarf Megacerine (Crete, Greece)
- Cyprus Spiny Mouse (1980, Cyprus)
- European Ass or Encebra (XV Century, Spain)
- Irish Elk (c.5000 BC, Ural Mountains)
- Majorcan Giant Dormouse (Majorca, Spain)
- Majorcan Hare (Majorca, Spain)
- Minorcan Giant Dormouse (Minorca, Spain))
- Portuguese Ibex (1892, Portugal)
- Pyrenean Ibex (2000, Spain)
- Sardinian Dhole (Sardinia, Italy)
- Sardinian Lynx (Sardinia, Italy)
- Sardinian Pika (1800, Sardinia, Italy)
- Tarpan (1880, Poland)
Birds
- Great Auk (1844, Iceland)
- Canarian Black Oystercatcher (1981, Tenerife, Spain)
- Cyprus Dipper (1950, Cyprus)
- Ibiza Rail (Ibiza, Spain)
- Madeiran Wood Pigeon (1924, Madeira, Portugal)
- Phylloscopus canariensis exsul, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Spain
Reptiles
Fish
Insects
- Tobias' Caddisfly (1920, Germany)
- Maculinea alcon arenaria (1979, Netherlands)
- Perrin's Cave Beetle (France)
Molluscs
- Belgandiella intermedia (Austria)
- Bythinella intermedia (Austria)
- Graecoanatolica macedonica (Lake Dorjan, Macedonia, Greece)
- Leiostyla lamellosa (Madeira, Portugal)
- Ohridohauffenia drimica (Serbia and Montenegro)
- Pseudocampylaea loweii (Madeira, Portugal)
Extinctions in French Overseas Departments
The territory of the European Union does not end at the borders of the European continent. The following lists features the animals that have become extinct in in the French overseas departments.
Local European Extinctions
- Grey Whale 1750 (North Atlantic Ocean)
- Northern Bald Ibis (16th Century)
- Asiatic Lion (100 AD)
See also
- List of extinct animals of the British Isles
- List of extinct and endangered animals of Lithuania
- List of extinct animals of the Netherlands