ENDANGERED FAUNA IN INDIA

ENDANGERED FAUNA IN INDIA
Some of the animal species listed below have been identified as endangered ones in India.

Mammals
Primates About 12 out of 19 are endangered. The chief species are, Haolock gibbon (the only ape in India), liontailed macaque. stumptailed macaque, pigtailed macaque, Nilgiri lan­gur, the capped, golden and phayre's leaf monkey.

Pholidota The Chinese pangolin and the Indian pangolin. Carnivora About 28 out of 36 are endangered. These include mainly Indian wolf, jackal, red fox, Indian fox, wild dog, the Himalayan brown bear, sloth bear, red panda, Ermine, ratel, Malabar Civet, tiger Civet, striped hyaena, Tiger, Indian lion, leopard, desert cat, lynx, caracal, jungle cat, leopard cat, Palla's cat, golden cat, Marbled cat and other cats, dugong.

Perissodactyla Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, smaller one-horned and the Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros, Indian wild ass. Tibetan wild ass.
Arliodactyla Andaman wild pig, Kashmir stag or hangul, swamp deer or barasingha. brow-antlered deer, Alpine musk deer, forest musk deer, mouse-deer, blackbuck or Indian antelope, chinkara or Indian gazelle, chiru or Tibetan antelope, four-horned antelope or chowsinga, gour or Indian bison, wild yak, wild buffalo. tahrs.

Lagomorpha Assam rabbit.

Rodentia Eleven species of flying squirrels and two of marmots.

Cetacea Gangetic dolphin, baleen whales, and other whales and marine dolphines.

Birds These include geese. swans, pinkheued duck. whitewinged wood duck, grey teal whooper swan, mute swan. Indian black-crested baza, blyth's baza, black eagle, many bawks, eagles and falcons, game birds, Bamboo partridge. Red spuriowl, painted spuriowl, mountain quail, blood pheasant, satyrtragopan, Blyth's tragopan, several pheasants, koklas pheas- . ant, chir pheasant. peacock pheasant, Indian peafowl. several cranes like eastern common crane, blacknecked crane. Hooded crane, great white crane. masked finfoot, several bustards and floricans like little bustard, houbra bustard, the great Indian bustard, the Bengal florican. Indian skimmer, the Nicobar pigeon, several frogmouths particularly Hodgson's frog mouth. the horn bills as white throated brown bornbill, the rufusnecked hornbill, wreathed hornbill, the great piea hornbill. Indian pied hornbill and the Malabar pied hornbill.

Reptiles Several turtle, tortoise and terrapin as leatherback or trunk turtle. the green sea turtle. the loggerhead and the hawksbill or tortoise shell turtle, the estuarine crocidile. the I marsh crocodile and the gharial; monitor lizards: Indian python.

Amphibia The viviparous toad. Indian salamander. !
Invertebrates

Crustacea The coconut or robber crab. (a large hermit crab).

Insecta Some dragonflies, butterflies and moths and beetles. most endangered ones is tiIIyards dragonfly: of moths and butterflies, 55 forms are known in India, of which 14 are rare.