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CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES OF INDIA (AS OF 2021)

1st September, 2021 Prelims

Arthropods

  • Rameshwaram parachute spider
  • Peacock tarantula

 

Birds

  • White-bellied heron
  • Great Indian bustard
  • Baer's pochard
  • Spoon-billed sandpiper
  • White-rumped vulture
  • Indian vulture
  • Slender-billed vulture
  • Bengal florican
  • Bugun liocichla
  • Himalayan quail
  • Jerdon's courser
  • Red-headed vulture
  • Sociable lapwing
  • Christmas Island Frigatebird
  • Pink-Headed Duck
  • Yellow-breasted Bunting
  • Siberian Crane

 

Fish

  • Wayanad mahseer
  • Pondicherry shark
  • Ganges shark
  • Kudremukh glyptothorax
  • Nilgiri mystus
  • Red Canarese barb
  • Bovany barb
  • Deolali minnow
  • Pookode Lake barb
  • Common sawfish
  • Largetooth sawfish
  • Longcomb sawfish
  • Deccan barb

Insects

  • Pygmy hog-sucking louse

 

Reptiles and amphibians

  • Madras spotted skink
  • Northern river terrapin
  • Red-crowned roofed turtle
  • Hawksbill sea turtle
  • Gharial
  • Ghats wart frog
  • Jeypore ground gecko
  • Gundia Indian frog
  • Toad-skinned frog
  • Charles Darwin's frog
  • Rao's torrt frog
  • Dattatreya night frog
  • Sacred grove bushfrog
  • Amboli bush frog
  • White-spotted bush frog
  • Green eyed bushfrog
  • Griet bush frog
  • Kaikatti bushfrog
  • Mark's bushfrog
  • Munnar bush frog
  • Ponmudi bush frog
  • Resplendent shrubfrog
  • Shillong bubble-nest frog
  • Anaimalai flying frog
  • Sushil's bushfrog
  • Amboli toad
  • Ghats wart frog
  • Namdapha flying squirrel


Mammals

  • Elvira rat
  • Andaman shrew
  • Jenkins' shrew
  • Nicobar shrew
  • Chinese pangolin
  • Malabar large-spotted civet
  • Kashmir stagor hangul
  • Kolar leaf-nosed bat
  • Large Rock Rat
  • Namdapha Flying Squirrel
  • Sumatra Rhinoceros
  • Javan Rhinoceros

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