The list of extinct Canadian animals includes several species that no longer exist. In addition to the animals below, several additional creatures formerly occurred in Canada but do so no longer. The Dodo, shown here in illustration, is an often-cited[1] example of extinction. ...

Extinct animals

According to the Species at Risk Act, the following animals are extinct.

Mammals

• Queen Charlotte Islands Caribou
• Sea Mink
• Newfoundland Wolf
• Banks Island Wolf
• Cascade Mountains Wolf

Binomial name Mustela macrodon (Prentiss, 1903) The Sea Mink, Mustela macrodon, was a North American member of the Mustelidae family, about twice as large as the American Mink. ...

Birds

• Great Auk
• Labrador Duck
• Passenger Pigeon
• Eskimo Curlew

Binomial name Pinguinus impennis (Linnaeus, 1758) The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) is an extinct bird. ... Binomial name Camptorhynchus labradorius (Gmelin, 1789) The Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius) was a striking black and white eider-like sea duck that was never known to be common, and is believed to be the first bird to go extinct in North America after 1500. ... // Binomial name Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was once probably the most common bird in the world. ... Binomial name Numenius borealis (Forster, 1772) The Eskimo Curlew or Northern Curlew, Numenius borealis, is (or possibly was) a medium-sized shorebird. ...

Fish

• Banff Longnose Dace
• Benthic Hadley Lake Stickleback
• Deepwater Cisco
• Lake Ontario Kiyi
• Limnetic Hadley Lake Stickleback
• Blue Walleye

The Deepwater cisco (Coregonus johannae) was one of the largest ciscoes in the Great Lakes. ... The Lake Ontario Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi orientalis) is a fish which was last recorded from Lake Ontario, canada in 1964. ...

Arthropods

• Rocky Mountain locust

Binomial name Melanoplus spretus Walsh, 1866 The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) was the major form of locust that ranged through almost the entire western half of the United States (and some western portions of Canada) until the end of the 19th century. ...

Mollusks

• Eelgrass Limpet

See also

• List of extinct animals of the United States
• List of extinct animals of Mexico
• List of extinct animals of North America
• List of extinct animals

An incomplete list of extinct animals of the United States. ... // Prepleistocene extinctions A large number of historical orders are extinct, for example dinosaurs, pterosaurs and ammonites. ...

Reference

• Species at Risk Act