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List of extinct animals of Oceania

January 13, 2022
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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 (between 9560 and 9300 BC). 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.

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Common namescientific name Extinction date Range Image
Emperor rat
Uromys imperator[1]		 1960s Solomon Islands —
Guadalcanal rat
Uromys porculus[2]		 1888 Solomon Islands —
Guam flying fox
Pteropus tokudae[3]		 1967 United States (Guam) —
Large Palau flying fox
Pteropus pilosus[4]		 1874 Palau —
Small Samoan flying fox
Pteropus allenorum		 19th or 20th century Samoa —
Large Samoan flying fox
Pteropus coxi		 19th or 20th century Samoa —
Nendo tube-nosed fruit bat
Nyctimene sanctacrucis[5]		 1907 Solomon Islands —

Possibly extinct

Common namescientific name Extinction date Range Image
Aru flying fox
Pteropus aruensis[6]		 1800s Aru, Indonesia —
Emma’s giant rat
Uromys emmae[7]		 1944 Papua, Indonesia —
New Guinea big-eared bat
Pharotis imogene[8]		 1890 Papua New Guinea —
Telefomin cuscus
Phalanger matanim[9]		 1998 Papua New Guinea —
Vanikoro flying fox
Pteropus tuberculatus[10]		 Before 1930 Vanikoro, Solomon Islands —
Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo
Dendrolagus mayri[11]		 1928 Papua, Indonesia —

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