The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.
This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely disappeared from Earth.
In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last fifty years of current time is textually called "extinct".
Plants
Animals
By region
- List of extinct animals of Africa
- List of extinct animals of Asia
- List of extinct animals of Europe
- List of extinct animals of Catalonia
- List of extinct animals of Caucasus
- List of extinct animals of the British Isles
- List of extinct and endangered species of Italy
- List of extinct and endangered animals of Lithuania
- List of extinct animals of the Netherlands
- List of extinct animals of the Nordics
- List of extinct animals of Romania
- List of extinct animals of North America
- List of extinct animals of Oceania
- List of extinct animals of South America
By taxon
Fossil taxa
- List of dinosaur genera
- List of fossil bird genera
- List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
- List of fossil primates
- Lists of prehistoric fish
Recent extinction
- List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of bird extinctions by year
- List of extinct dog breeds
- List of recently extinct amphibians
- List of recently extinct arthropods
- List of recently extinct fishes
- List of recently extinct insects
- List of recently extinct invertebrates
- List of recently extinct mammals
- List of recently extinct molluscs
- List of recently extinct reptiles
See also
- Category:Extinct species
- Category:Species made extinct by human activities
- Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened
- Extinction
- Extinction event
- Endangered species
- Extinct (disambiguation)
- Lists of organisms by population
- Lists of animals
- List of lists of lists §§ Natural and physical sciences and List of lists of lists