List of MAMMALIA species in New Zealand



This is a list of MAMMALIA in New Zealand 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
Cephalorhynchus hectori Hector's Dolphin 4162 EN
Chalinolobus tuberculatus New Zealand Long-tailed Bat 4425 VU
Cephalorhynchus hectori ssp. maui Maui's Dolphin 39427 CR
Tursiops truncatus Fiordland subpopulation Fiordland Bottlenose Dolphin 194300 CR
Mystacina robusta New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat 14260 CR
Mystacina tuberculata New Zealand Lesser Short-tailed Bat 14261 VU

 

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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)