Orders at Risk
The following list of mammal orders and number of critically endangered (CR) and endangered (EN) species is taken from the 2002 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Orders Paucituberculata, Microbiotheria, Dermoptera, Hyracoidea, Tubulidentata, Pholidota, and Sirenia have no mammal species on the critically endangered list or the endangered list — and so are not included below.
For the complete list of threatened mammalian species and subspecies, visit the 2002 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
SUBCLASS PROTOTHERIA
- Order Monotremata
- CR 0 species
EN 1 species: long-nosed echidna
SUBCLASS THERIA
Infraclass Metatheria (Marsupialia)
- Order Didelphimorphia
- CR 3 species: e.g. Handley's mouse opossum
EN 3 species: e.g. Marmosa xerophila
- Order Dasyuromorphia
- CR 0 species
EN 6 species: e.g. Kangaroo Island Dunnart
- Order Peramelemorphia
- CR 0 species
EN 1 species: long-nosed bandicoot
- Order Notoryctemorphia
- CR 0 species
EN 2 species: northern marsupial mole, southern marsupial mole
- Order Diprotodontia
- CR 2 species: Gilbert's potoroo, northern hairy-nosed wombat
EN 15 species: e.g. Goodfellow's tree kangaroo
Infraclass Eutheria (Placentalia)
- Order Xenarthra
- CR 0 species
EN 3 species: maned sloth, pink fairy armadillo, giant armadillo
- Order Insectivora
- CR 36 species: e.g. Juliana's golden mole, Malayan water shrew
EN 45 species: e.g. Haitian solenodon, giant golden mole, Mindanao moonrat
- Order Scandentia
- CR 0 species
EN 2 species: Bornean tree shrew, Nicobar tree shrew
- Order Chiroptera
- CR 29 species: e.g. cusp-toothed flying fox
EN 37 species: e.g. Kitti's hog-nosed bat
- Order Primates
- CR 19 species: e.g. Javan gibbon, golden lion tamarin
EN 46 species: e.g. mountain gorilla, indri, chimpanzee, bonobo
- Order Carnivora
- CR 5 species: e.g. red wolf, Mediterranean monk seal
EN 31 species: e.g. giant panda, tiger, snow leopard
- Order Cetacea
- CR 2 species: Chinese lake dolphin, gulf porpoise
EN 7 species: e.g. blue whale, fin-backed whale, northern right whale
- Order Proboscidea
- CR 0 species
EN 2 species: African elephant, Asian elephant
- Order Perissodactyla
- CR 4 species: e.g. Javan rhinoceros, black rhinoceros
EN 6 species: e.g. mountain zebra, great Indian rhinoceros
- Order Artiodactyla
- CR 11 species: e.g.Przewalski's gazelle
EN 26 species: e.g. wisent, asian buffalo, Nubian ibex
- Order Rodentia
- CR 68 species: e.g. short-tailed chinchilla
EN 95 species: e.g. Idaho ground squirrel, Japanese dormouse
- Order Lagomorpha
- CR 2 species: Sumatran rabbit, Omilteme cottontail
EN 8 species: e.g. riverine rabbit, Ryukyu rabbit
- Order Macroscelidea
- CR 0 species
EN 3 species: e.g. golden-rumped elephant-shrew
