List of extinct animals of Canada
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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.
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[edit] Extinct animals
According to the Species at Risk Act, the following animals are extinct.
[edit] Mammals
- Queen Charlotte Islands Caribou Rangifer tarandus dawsoni 1930s
- Sea Mink Mustela macrodon 1894
- Newfoundland Wolf Canis lupus beothucus, Newfoundland, 1911 †
- Banks Island Wolf, Canis lupus bernardi, Banks and Victoria Islands, 1920 †
- Cascade Mountains Wolf, Canis lupus fuscus, British Columbia
[edit] Birds
- Great Auk Pinguinus impennis (1844)
- Labrador Duck Camptorhynchus labradorius (1878)
- Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius (1914)
[edit] Fish
- Banff Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae smithi (1987)
- Benthic Hadley Lake Stickleback Gasterosteus sp. (1980s)
- Blue Walleye Stizostedion vitreum glaucum (1965)
- Deepwater Cisco Coregonus johannae (1952)
- Lake Ontario Kiyi Coregonus kiyi orientalis (1967)
- Limnetic Hadley Lake Stickleback Gasterosteus sp. (1980s)
[edit] Arthropods
- Rocky Mountain locust Melanoplus spretus (1902)
[edit] Molluscs
- Eelgrass Limpet Lottia alveus alveus (1929)
[edit] 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
