List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
The list of extinct animals of Asia features the animals that have become extinct along the history in the Asian Continent. This list only involves extinctions of the Holocene epoch.
Global Holocene extinctions
Mammalia
Prehistoric extinctions| Common name/scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
| Cave lion Panthera spelaea | 10000 BC | Northern Asia and had a widespread across Europe and Southern Asia | |
| Chinese elephant Elephas maximus rubridens | 1500 BC | Eastern China | -- |
| Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus Hippopotamus minor | Unknown | Cyprus | |
| Elasmotherium Elasmotherium sp. | 29000 BC | Northern Asia | |
| Giant tapir Tapirus augustus | 2000 BC | China | |
| Giant deer Megaloceros giganteus | 5700 BC | Northern Asia | |
| Stegodon Stegodon florensis insularis | 2150 BC | Indonesia and Philippine Islands | |
| Steppe wisent Bison priscus | 3400 BC | Central Asia to Siberia | |
| Syrian elephant Elephas maximus asurus | 100 BC | Middle East | |
| Woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius | 2000 BC | Northern Asia | |
| Woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis | 10000 BC | Northern Asia |
Recent extinctions
| Common name/scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
| Aurochs Bos primigenius | India, Eurasia | Northern Asia and Indian Subcontinent | |
| Bali tiger Panthera tigris sondaica | 1937 | Indonesia | |
| Buhler's coryphomys Coryphomys buehleri | 1500s | Indonesia | -- |
| Caspian tiger Panthera tigris tigris | 1970s | Turkey to China | |
| Caucasian elk Alces alces caucasicus | 1850s | Caucasus Mountains, Iran and Turkey | |
| Caucasian wisent Bison bonasus caucasicus | 1925 | Caucasus Mountains | |
| Cebu warty pig Sus cebifrons cebifrons | 2000 | Philippines | -- |
| Flores cave rat Spelaeomys florensis | 1500s | Indonesia | -- |
| Flores long-nosed rat Paulamys naso | 1500s | Indonesia | -- |
| Formosan clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa brachyura | 1990s | Taiwan | |
| Hokkaidō wolf Canis lupus hattai | 1889 | Japan | |
| Honshū wolf Canis lupus hodophilax | 1905 | Japan | |
| Ilin Island cloudrunner Crateromys paulus | April 4, 1953 | Philippines | -- |
| Indian Javan rhinoceros Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis | Before 1925 | Bangladesh, Burma, and India | |
| Japanese river otter Lutra lutra whiteleyi | 1979 | Japan | |
| Japanese sea lion Zalophus japonicus | 1974 | Sea of Japan | |
| Javan tiger Panthera tigris sondaica | 1970s | Indonesia | |
| Northern Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis | Unknown | Bangladesh, Burma, and India | |
| Queen of Sheba's gazelle Gazella bilkis | 1951 | Yemen | -- |
| Saudi gazelle Gazella saudiya | Unknown | Arabian Peninsula | -- |
| Schomburgk's deer Rucervus schomburgki | 1938 | Thailand | |
| Steller's sea cow Hydrodamalis gigas | 1768 | Russia | |
| Sturdee's pipistrelle Pipistrellus sturdeei | Unknown | Japan | -- |
| Verhoeven's giant tree rat Papagomys theodorverhoeveni | 1500s | Indonesia | -- |
| Vietnamese Javan rhinoceros Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus | 2010 | Vietnam to Malaysia |
Possibly extinct
| Common name/scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
| Baiji Lipotes vexillifer | August 2004 | Yangtze River, China | |
| Gloomy tube-nosed bat Murina tenebrosa | 1962 | Tsushima Island, Japan | -- |
| Kouprey Bos sauveli | 1988 | Cambodia, Laos, Thailand & Vietnam | |
| Malabar civet Viverra civettina | 1987 | India |
Birds
Possibly extinct| Common name/scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
| Black-browed babbler Malacocincla perspicillata | 1843 to 1848 | Indonesia | -- |
| Catanduanes bleeding heart Gallicolumba luzonica rubiventris | 1971 | Philippines | -- |
| Crested shelduck Tadorna cristata | 1985 | Japan, North Korea and South Korea | |
| Himalayan quail Ophrysia superciliosa | 1876 | India | |
| Javan lapwing Vanellus macropterus | 1940 | Indonesia | |
| Negros fruit dove Ptilinopus arcanus | 1953 | Philippines | |
| Pink-headed duck Rhodonessa caryophyllacea | 1950s | Bangladesh, Burma and India | |
| Rück's blue flycatcher Cyornis ruckii | 1918 | Indonesia | -- |
| Siau scops owl Otus manadensis siaoensis | 1866 | Indonesia | -- |
| Slender-billed curlew Numenius tenuirostris | 1998 | Russia | |
| Sulu bleeding-heart Gallicolumba menagei | 1891 | Philippines | |
| Vaurie's nightjar Caprimulgus centralasicus | 1929 | China | -- |
| White-eyed river martin Pseudochelidon sirintarae | 1980 | Thailand |
Reptiles
Prehistoric extinctions| Common name/scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
| Megalochelys atlas Megalochelys atlas | 10000 BC | Indian Subcontinent to Indonesia |
Amphibians
Fish
- Acanthobrama hulensis 1975, Israel
- Cyprinus yilongensis 1981, China
- Gokce baligi
Platytropius siamensis, 1975-1977, Thailand
- Tristramella intermedia 1970s, Israel
- Tristramella magdelainae Unknown, Syria
Annelida (Oligochaeta) Earthworms
- Amynthas japonicus Unknown, Japan
Molluscs
- Gastrocopta chichijimana, Unknown, Japan
- Gastrocopta ogasawarana, Unknown, Japan
- Hirasea planulata, Unknown, Japan
- Lamellidea monodonta, Unknown, Japan
- Lamellidea nakadai, Unknown, Japan
- Littoraria flammea, Unknown, China
- Trochoidea picardi, Unknown, Israel
- Vitrinula chaunax, Unknown, Japan
- Vitrinula chichijimana, Unknown, Japan
- Vitrinula hahajimana, Unknown, Japan