List of mammals of India

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Template:Wildlife of India This list of mammals of India comprises all the mammal species alive in India today. Some of them are common to the point of being considered vermin while others are exceedingly rare. Many species are known from just a few zoological specimens in museums collected in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the carnivores and larger mammals are restricted in their distribution to forests in protected areas, while others live within cities in the close proximity of humans. They range in size from the Eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) to the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). They include nocturnal small mammals endemic to India such as the Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina). While the status of many of these species is unknown, some are definitely extinct. Populations of many carnivores are threatened. The tiger (Panthera tigris), dhole (Cuon alpinus), and Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina) are some of the most endangered carnivore species. Two rhinoceros species are extinct within the Indian region, but the remaining species, the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) has its last stronghold within India. The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) was extirpated from India in the 1950s.

Order: Insectivora[edit]

Family Erinaceidae: hedgehogs[edit]

Family Talpidae: moles[edit]

Family Soricidae: shrews[edit]

Soricinae[edit]

Crocidurinae[edit]

Order: Scandentia[edit]

Family Tupaiidae: treeshrews[edit]

Indian tree-shrew (Anathana ellioti) in Yercaud, India

Tupaiinae[edit]

Order: Chiroptera: bats[edit]

Family Pteropodidae: fruit bats[edit]

Family Rhinopomatidae: mouse-tailed bats[edit]

Family Emballonuridae: sheath-tailed bats[edit]

Family Megadermatidae: false vampire bats[edit]

Family Rhinolophidae: horseshoe bats[edit]

Family Hipposideridae: leaf-nosed bats[edit]

Family Vespertilionidae: evening bats[edit]

Family Molossidae: free-tailed bats[edit]

Order: Primates[edit]

Slender loris in Tamil Nadu

Family Lorisidae: lorises[edit]

Bonnet macaque in southern India
Tufted grey langur in Biligiriranga Hills

Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys[edit]

Family Hylobatidae: lesser apes (gibbons)[edit]

Earlier classified as a single species, the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) has been reclassified as follows:[6]

Order: Carnivora: Carnivorans[edit]

Family Canidae: canines/dogs[edit]

Indian wolf at Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar, Gujarat
Indian jackal in Central India
Dhole

Family Felidae: cats[edit]

Indian leopard in Biligiriranga Hills Wildlife Sanctuary
Jungle cat in the Sundarbans

Family Viverridae: civets and palm civets[edit]

Small Indian civet
Asian palm civet in Kerala

Family Prionodontidae: Asiatic linsangs[edit]

Family Ursidae: bears[edit]

Sloth bear

Family Ailuropodidae: pandas[edit]

Family Mustelidae: mustelids[edit]

Yellow-throated marten
Oriental small-clawed otter in the Western Ghats

Family Herpestidae: mongooses[edit]

Ruddy mongoose

Family Hyaenidae: hyenas[edit]

Striped hyena in Gujarat

Order: Cetacea: whales, dolphins, and porpoises[edit]

Spinner dolphin in the Bay of Bengal

Family Delphinidae[edit]

File:The magnificent Ganges River Dolphin.jpg
Gangetic dolphin

Family Platanistidae: river dolphins[edit]

Family Balaenopteridae[edit]

Family Balaenidae[edit]

Family Ziphiidae[edit]

Family Phocoenidae[edit]

Family Kogiidae[edit]

Family Physeteridae[edit]

Order: Sirenia[edit]

Family Dugongidae[edit]

  • Dugong (Dugong dugon) (Muller, 1776)

Order: Proboscidea[edit]

Family Elephantidae: elephants[edit]

Order: Perissodactyla: odd-toed ungulates[edit]

Indian wild ass in Little Rann of Kutch

Family Equidae: horses[edit]

Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses[edit]

Order: Artiodactyla: even-toed ungulates[edit]

Pygmy hog in Assam breeding centre
Indian boar in the Anaimalai Hills

Family Suidae: pigs[edit]

Indian spotted chevrotain in the Anaimalai Hills

Family Tragulidae: chevrotains[edit]

Family Moschidae[edit]

Chital male with two females in Kanha National Park

Family Cervidae: deer[edit]

Nilgiri tahr

Family Bovidae: bovids[edit]

Order: Pholidota: pangolins[edit]

Indian pangolin in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

Family Manidae: pangolins[edit]

Order: Rodentia[edit]

Indian palm squirrel in Bengaluru
Indian giant squirrel in Kerala

Family Sciuridae: squirrels[edit]

Family Muridae: Old World rats, mice[edit]

Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines[edit]

Order: Lagomorpha: hares, rabbits, pikas[edit]

Indian hare at Bandipur National Park

Family Leporidae: hares and rabbits[edit]

Family Ochotonidae: pikas[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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