List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands


This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands.

Mammals

Pre-European extinctions
Post-European extinctions
Common name\scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
ʻĀmaui
Myadestes woahensis
1850s
Oahu--
Bishop's ʻōʻō
Moho bishopi
1904
Molokai and Maui
Black mamo
Drepanis funerea
1907
Molokai and Maui
Greater ʻamakihi
Viridonia sagittirostris
1901
Hawaii/Big Island
Greater koa finch
Rhodacanthis palmeri
1896
Hawaii/Big Island
Hawaiʻi ʻakialoa
Hemignathus obscurus
1940
Hawaii/Big Island
Hawai'i mamo
Drepanis pacifica
July 1898
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō
Moho nobilis
1934
Hawaii/Big Island
Hawaiian rail
Porzana sandwichensis
1883
Hawaii/Big Island
Kāmaʻo
Myadestes myadestinus
1989
Kauaʻi
Kauaʻi ʻakialoa
Hemignathus ellisianus stejnegeri
1965
Kauaʻi
Kauaʻi ʻōʻō
Moho braccatus
1987
Kauaʻi
Kioea
Chaetoptila angustipluma
1859
Hawaii/Big Island
Lana'i 'akialoa
Hemignathus ellisianus lanaiensis
1890s
Lana'i
Kona grosbeak
Chloridops kona
1894
Hawaii/Big Island
Lāna'i hookbill
Dysmorodrepanis munroi
1918
Lāna'i
Laysan rail
Porzana palmeri
1944
Laysan
Laysan honeycreeper
Himatione fraithii
1923
Laysan
Laysan millerbird
Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris
1910s
Laysan
Lesser koa finch
Rhodacanthis flaviceps
1891
Hawaii/Big Island
Maui ʻakepa
Loxops coccineus ochraceus
1988
M'aui
Molokaʻi creeper
Paroreomyza flammea
1963
Molokaʻi
Oʻahu ʻōʻō
Moho apicalis
1837
O‘ahu
Oahu 'akialoa
Hemignathus ellisianus ellisanus
1860s-1940
O‘ahu
Oʻahu ʻakepa
Loxops coccineus wolstenholmei
1900s
O'ahu
Oʻahu nukupuʻu
Hemignathus lucidus lucidus
1837
O‘ahu
Ula-'ai-hawane
Ciridops anna
1892
Hawaii/Big Island

Possibly extinct birds
Common name\scientific nameExtinction dateRangeImage
Nukupu‘u
Hemignathus lucidus
1998
Kaua'I, Maui and O'ahu
Oʻahu ʻalauahio
Paroreomyza maculata
1985
O‘ahu
Olomaʻo
Myadestes lanaiensis
1980
O‘ahu
ʻŌʻū
Psittirostra psittacea
1987
Hawaiian Islands
Poʻouli
Melamprosops phaeosoma
November 26, 2004
Maui

Insects

Mollusks