List of Extinct species in Canada



This is a list of Extinct species in Canada according to the IUCN Red List.

This list was last updated 2019-09-14

 

This list contains only species that have been assessed for the IUCN Red List. It is therefore not representative of all the species in the country.

Species counts by country: Total | Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Reptiles | Vascular Plants.

scientific_namecommon_nametaxonidcategory
Pinguinus impennis Great Auk 22694856 EX
Melanoplus spretus Rocky Mountain Locust 51269349 EX
Camptorhynchus labradorius Labrador Duck 22680418 EX
Galba vancouverensis 69620808 EX
Coregonus alpenae Longjaw Cisco 5361 EX
Coregonus johannae Deepwater Cisco 5367 EX
Coregonus nigripinnis Blackfin Cisco 5371 EX
Neomacounia nitida 39179 EX
Ectopistes migratorius Passenger Pigeon 22690733 EX
Epioblasma torulosa ssp. torulosa Tubercled-blossom Pearly Mussel 7888 EX
Neovison macrodon Sea Mink 40784 EX

 

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Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups:
  • Extinct (EX) – beyond reasonable doubt that the species is no longer extant.
  • Extinct in the wild (EW) – survives only in captivity, cultivation and/or outside native range, as presumed after exhaustive surveys.
  • Critically endangered (CR) – in a particularly and extremely critical state.
  • Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered.
  • Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 red list criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention.
  • Near threatened (NT) – close to being at high risk of extinction in the near future.
  • Least concern (LC) – unlikely to become extinct in the near future.
  • Data deficient (DD)
  • Not evaluated (NE)