This is a list of extinct New Zealand animals. Apart from bats New Zealand has no mammalian species.

Amphibians

• Aurora frog
• Markham's frog
• Waitomo frog
• Stereospondyl - [1]

Bats

New Zealand now has two surviving species of bat.

• Greater short-tailed bat

Birds

This list is incomplete.

32% of land and freshwater birds are extinct. 40 of the bird species became extinct before the 1800s and another 10 since then. 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

• Moa
  • Little bush moa
  • Upland moa
  • Heavy -footed moa
  • Crested moa
  • Mappin's moa
  • Stout-legged moa
  • Coastal moa
  • Eastern moa
  • Slender bush moa
  • Large bush moa
  • Giant moa
• Harpagornis (Haast's Eagle)
• Snipe-Rail
• Grant-Mackie's Wren
• North Island Goose
• Blue-billed Duck
• Yaldwyn's Wren
• New Zealand Coot
• Adzebill
• New Zealand Crow
• North Island Takahe
• Laughing Owl
• Bush Wren
• Stephens Island Wren
• Huia
• South Island Piopio
• New Zealand Quail
• Little Barrier Snipe
• South Island Kokako
• New Zealand Little Bittern
• Chatham Island Fernbird

Jump to: navigation, search Genera Family Anomalopterygidae Anomalopteryx Euryapteryx Megalapteryx Family Dinornithidae Dinornis Emeus Pachyornis The moa are the giant flightless birds of New Zealand. ... Binomial name Harpagornis moorei Haast, 1872 The Harpagornis or Haasts eagle was a massive New Zealand eagle and the largest bird of prey known to have lived. ... Species Aptornis otidiformis Aptornis defossor The adzebills (genus Aptornis) were two closely related bird species, the North Island Adzebill (Aptornis otidiformis Owen 1844) and the South Island Adzebill (Aptornis defossor Owen 1871) of the extinct family Aptornithidae (Mantell 1848). ... Binomial name Porphyrio mantelli (Owen, 1848) The Takahē, Porphyrio mantelli, is a flightless bird native to New Zealand which belongs to the rail family. ... Binomial name Sceloglaux albifacies (Gray GR, 1845) The Laughing Owl (Sceloglaux albifacies), Whekau or White-faced Owl, was an endemic owl found in New Zealand, but is now probably extinct. ... Binomial name Xenicus longipes (Gmelin, 1789) The Bush Wren (Xenicus longipes), or Matuhi in Maori, is a very small and almost flightless bird endemic to New Zealand. ... Binomial name Xenicus lyalli Rothschild, 1894 The Stephens Island Wren (Xenicus lyalli) is famous for being considered the only known species to be entirely wiped out by a single individual. ... Binomial name Heteralocha acutirostris (Gould, 1837) The Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris) was a bird that was native to New Zealand. ...

Fish

• Grayling

A grayling can refer to a A type of freshwater salmonid fish: Specifically, Thymallus thymallus, the grayling proper, or Generically, any fish of genus Thymallus, the graylings Grayling butterfly, Hipparchia semele, common on heathlands in Britain Grayling is also the name of several places: Grayling, Alaska Grayling, Michigan Grayling Township...

Reptiles

• Kawekaweau
• Narrow-bodied skink
• Northland skink
• Mosasaur - became extinct in the Cretaceous period. [2]

Subfamilies Mosasaurinae Plioplatecarpinae Tylosaurinae A mosasaur was not a dinosaur, but rather an ocean-dwelling serpentine marine reptile more closely related to snakes than to monitor lizards (Lee 1997). ... The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period (about 146 MYA) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period (65. ...

References

• Wilson, K-J, (2004) Flight of the Huia, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. ISBN 0908812523
• Gill, B.; Martinson, P., (1991) New Zealand’s Extinct Birds, Random Century New Zealand Ltd.