Australia Extinct and Endangered Species

As of June 30th, 2014, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ lists over 200 endangered and over 100 critically endangered species in AUSTRALIA (learn more about Australia with my post). The Red List declares 37 species as extinct, including different types of arachnids, emus (Kangaroo Island Emu and King Island Emu), frogs (Eungella Gastric-Brooding Frog, Southern Day Frog, and Southern Platypus Frog), mice (including the Blue-Grey Mouse, Darling Downs Hopping Mouse, and Short-Tailed Hopping Mouse), and snails. There are also many marsupial species on the extinction list, including the Thylacine, the Yallara, bandicoots (Desert Bandicoot and Pig-Footed Bandicoot), and wallabies (Central Hare-Wallaby, Eastern Hare-Wallaby, and Toolache Wallaby). Many of those species were recorded extinct even more than a hundred years ago; for example, the Short-Tailed Hopping Mouse was extinct since 1896.