List of mammals of India
This list of mammals of India comprises all the mammal species alive in India today. Some of them are common to the point of being considered vermin while others are exceedingly rare. Many species are known from just a few zoological specimens in museums collected in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the carnivores and larger mammals are restricted in their distribution to forests in protected areas, while others live within cities in the close proximity of humans. They range in size from the Eurasian pygmy shrew to the Asian elephant. They include nocturnal small mammals endemic to India such as the Malabar large-spotted civet. While the status of many of these species is unknown, some are definitely extinct. Populations of many carnivores are threatened. The tiger, dhole, and Malabar large-spotted civet are some of the most endangered carnivore species. Two rhinoceros species are extinct within the Indian region, but the remaining species, the Indian rhinoceros has its last stronghold within India.
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family Erinaceidae: hedgehogs">Hedgehog">hedgehogs
Family Talpidae: moles">Mole (animal)">moles
Family Soricidae: shrews">Shrew">shrews
Soricinae
- Chinese mole shrew
- Himalayan water shrew
- Elegant water shrew
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- Kashmir pygmy shrew
- Hodgson's brown-toothed shrew
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew
- Long-tailed mountain shrew
- Himalayan shrew
Crocidurinae
- Andaman shrew
- Asian grey shrew
- Southeast Asian shrew
- Andaman spiny shrew
- Horsfield's shrew
- Jenkins's shrew
- Bicolored shrew
- Nicobar shrew
- Pale grey shrew
- Kashmir white-toothed shrew
- Sonnerat's shrew
- Kelaart's long-clawed shrew
- Day's shrew
- Etruscan shrew
- Asian house shrew
- Anderson's shrew
Order: Scandentia
Family Tupaiidae: treeshrews">Treeshrew">treeshrews
Tupaiinae
Order: Chiroptera: bats">Bat">bats
Family Pteropodidae: fruit bats
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Lesser dawn bat
- Cave nectar bat
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Ratanaworabhan's fruit bat
- Nicobar flying fox
- Indian flying fox
- Small flying fox
- Black-eared flying fox
- Large flying fox
- Leschenault's rousette
- Blanford's fruit bat
Family Rhinopomatidae: mouse-tailed bats
Family Emballonuridae: sheath-tailed bats
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Black-bearded tomb bat
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
- Egyptian tomb bat Taphozous saccolaimus
- Theobald's tomb bat
Family Megadermatidae: false vampire bats
Family Rhinolophidae: horseshoe bats
- Intermediate horseshoe bat
- Andaman horseshoe bat
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Lesser horseshoe bat
- Blyth's horseshoe bat
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Mitred horseshoe bat endemic to Bihar
- Pearson's horseshoe bat
- Least horseshoe bat
- Rufous horseshoe bat
- Little Nepalese horseshoe bat
- Trefoil horseshoe bat
- Dobson's horseshoe bat
Family Hipposideridae: leaf-nosed bats
- East Asian tailless leaf-nosed bat
- Great roundleaf bat
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Ashy roundleaf bat
- Khajuria's leaf-nosed bat
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Cantor's roundleaf bat
- Indian roundleaf bat
- Intermediate roundleaf bat
- Pomona roundleaf bat
- Indian roundleaf bat
- Schneider's leaf-nosed bat
Family Vespertilionidae: evening bats
- Asian barbastelle
- Northern bat endemic to Kashmir
- Gobi big brown bat
- Thick-eared bat
- Serotine bat
- Sombre bat
- Tickell's bat
- Blanford's bat
- Great evening bat
- Hairy-faced bat
- Lesser mouse-eared bat
- Daubenton's bat
- Hodgson's bat
- Lesser large-footed bat
- Horsfield's bat
- Kashmir cave bat
- Burmese whiskered bat
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Whiskered bat
- Peshwa bat
- Mandelli's mouse-eared bat
- Himalayan whiskered bat
- Lesser noctule
- Mountain noctule
- Common noctule
- Desert long-eared bat
- Dormer's bat
- Chocolate pipistrelle
- Cadorna's pipistrelle
- Kelaart's pipistrelle
- Indian pipistrelle
- Java pipistrelle
- Kuhl's pipistrelle
- Mount Popa pipistrelle
- Common pipistrelle
- Savi's pipistrelle
- Least pipistrelle
- Brown long-eared bat
- Grey long-eared bat
- Desert yellow bat
- Harlequin bat
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Lesser bamboo bat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Small bent-winged bat
- Common bent-wing bat
- Lesser hairy-winged bat
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Peters's tube-nosed bat
- Hutton's tube-nosed bat
- Greater tube-nosed bat
- Scully's tube-nosed bat
- Little tube-nosed bat
- Rainforest tube-nosed bat
- Jaintia tube-nosed bat
- Hardwicke's woolly bat
- Papillose woolly bat
- Painted bat
Family Molossidae: free-tailed bats
- Wroughton's free-tailed bat
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- European free-tailed bat
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat
Order: Primates
Family Lorisidae: lorises
Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Assam macaque
- Nicobar long-tailed macaque
- Rhesus macaque
- Arunachal macaque
- Northern pig-tailed macaque
- Bonnet macaque
- Lion-tailed macaque
- White-cheeked macaque
- Nepal grey langur
- Tarai grey langur
- Kashmir grey langur
- Northern plains grey langur
- Southern plains grey langur
- Black-footed grey langur
- Tufted grey langur
- Capped langur
- Phayre's leaf monkey
- Nilgiri langur
- Gee's golden langur
Family Hylobatidae: lesser apes (gibbons)
Earlier classified as a single species, the hoolock gibbon has been reclassified as follows:Order: Carnivora: Carnivorans
Family Canidae: canines/dogs
Family Felidae: cats
- Asian golden cat
- Caracal
- Cheetah reintroduction in progress
- *Southeast African cheetah introduction in progress
- Jungle cat
- Asiatic wildcat
- Eurasian lynx
- Clouded leopard
- Pallas's cat
- Bengal tiger
- Asiatic lion
- Indian leopard
- Snow leopard
- Marbled cat
- Leopard cat
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Fishing cat
Family Viverridae: civets and palm civets
- Large Indian civet
- Malabar large-spotted civet
- Small Indian civet
- Binturong
- Asian palm civet
- Masked palm civet
- Brown palm civet
- Small-toothed palm civet
Family Prionodontidae: Asiatic linsangs
Family Ursidae: bears
Family Ailuropodidae: pandas
- Red panda, ''A. fulgens''
Family Mustelidae: mustelids
- Oriental small-clawed otter
- Greater hog badger
- Northern hog badger
- Eurasian otter
- Hairy-nosed otter extirpated
- Smooth-coated otter
- Yellow-throated marten
- Beech marten
- Nilgiri marten
- Honey badger
- Chinese ferret badger
- Burmese ferret badger
- Mountain weasel
- Stoat
- Steppe polecat presence uncertain
- Yellow-bellied weasel
- Siberian weasel
- Back-striped weasel
Family Herpestidae: mongooses
- Small Indian mongoose,
- Indian grey mongoose
- Striped-necked mongoose
- Crab-eating mongoose
- Ruddy mongoose
- Indian brown mongoose
Family Hyaenidae: hyenas
Order: Cetacea: whales, dolphins, and porpoises
Family Delphinidae
- Short-beaked common dolphin
- Short-finned pilot whale
- Risso's dolphin
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Killer whale
- Melon-headed whale
- False killer whale
- Pygmy killer whale
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
- Spinner dolphin
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
- Fraser's dolphin
- Pantropical spotted dolphin
- Striped dolphin
- Rough-toothed dolphin
Family Platanistidae: river dolphins
Family Balaenopteridae
Family Balaenidae
- Southern right whale evidence unclear
Family Ziphiidae
Family Phocoenidae
Family Kogiidae
Family Physeteridae
Order: Sirenia
Family Dugongidae
Order: Proboscidea
Family Elephantidae: elephants
Order: Perissodactyla: odd-toed ungulates
Family Equidae: horses
Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses
- Northern Sumatran rhinoceros, locally extinct
- Javan rhinoceros, locally extinct
- *Lesser Javan rhinoceros,
- Indian rhinoceros
Order: Artiodactyla: even-toed ungulates
Family Suidae: pigs
Family Tragulidae: chevrotains
Family Moschidae
Family Cervidae: deer
- Chital
- Indian hog deer
- Central Asian red deer
- *Kashmir stag
- Indian muntjac
- Gongshan muntjac
- Leaf muntjac
- Barasingha
- Eld's deer
- Sambar deer
Family Bovidae: bovids
- Blackbuck
- Gaur
- Banteng extirpated
- Wild yak
- Indian aurochs extinct
- Nilgai
- Wild water buffalo
- Takin
- Markhor
- Siberian ibex
- Mainland serow
- Chinkara
- Himalayan tahr
- Red goral
- Long-tailed goral
- Himalayan goral
- Nilgiri tahr
- Argali
- Urial
- Tibetan antelope
- Tibetan gazelle
- Bharal
- Four-horned antelope
Order: Pholidota: pangolins
Family Manidae: pangolins
Order: Rodentia
Family Sciuridae: squirrels
- Hairy-footed flying squirrel
- Namdapha flying squirrel
- Pallas's squirrel
- Irrawaddy squirrel
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Perny's long-nosed squirrel
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel
- Western woolly flying squirrel
- Tibetan woolly flying squirrel Jackson, Helgen, Q. Li & Jiang, 2021
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Afghan flying squirrel
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Layard's palm squirrel
- Indian palm squirrel
- Jungle palm squirrel endemic
- Northern palm squirrel
- Nilgiri striped squirrel
- Himalayan marmot
- Long-tailed marmot
- Spotted giant flying squirrel
- Hodgson's giant flying squirrel
- Bhutan giant flying squirrel
- Red giant flying squirrel
- Indian giant flying squirrel
- Mechuka giant flying squirrel
- Mishmi Hills giant flying squirrel
- Mebo giant flying squirrel, Petaurista siangensis
- Travancore flying squirrel
- Black giant squirrel
- Indian giant squirrel or Malabar giant
- Grizzled giant squirrel
- Himalayan striped squirrel
Family Muridae: Old World rats, mice
- South China field mouse
- Sichuan field mouse
- Kashmir field mouse
- Wood mouse
- Ward's field mouse
- Lesser bandicoot rat
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Bower's white-toothed rat
- Kenneth's white-toothed rat
- Manipur white-toothed rat
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Blanford's rat
- Cutch rat
- Elvira rat known only from Kurumbapatti, Salem
- Millard's rat
- Crump's mouse
- Edwards's long-tailed giant rat
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Kondana soft-furred rat
- Soft-furred rat or metad
- Manipur bush rat
- Little Indian field mouse
- Fawn-colored mouse
- Cook's mouse
- Earth-colored mouse
- Servant mouse endemic to the Western Ghats
- House mouse
- Gairdner's shrewmouse
- Phillips's mouse
- Flat-haired mouse endemic
- Rock-loving mouse
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat
- Brahma white-bellied rat
- Smoke-bellied rat
- Chestnut white-bellied rat
- Lang Bian white-bellied rat
- White-bellied rat
- Tenasserim white-bellied rat
- Nonsense rat Nicobars
- Polynesian rat
- Himalayan field rat
- Brown rat
- Palm rat
- Kerala rat Western Ghats
- Black rat
- Sikkim rat
- Andaman rat
- Malayan field rat
- Turkestan rat
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse
- Indian desert jird
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- Tibetan dwarf hamster
- Grey dwarf hamster
- Indian gerbil
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Balochistan gerbil
- Indian bush rat
- Malabar spiny dormouse
- White-tailed mountain vole
- Central Kashmir vole
- Royle's mountain vole
- Stolička's mountain vole
- Silver mountain vole
- Père David's vole
- Murree vole
- Blyth's vole
- True's vole
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Hoary bamboo rat
Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines
Order: Lagomorpha: hares, rabbits, pikas
Family Leporidae: hares and rabbits
Family Ochotonidae: pikas
Other references
- Corbet, G. B. & Hill, J. E.. The Mammals of the Indomalayan Region: A Systematic Review. Oxford University Press.
- Ellerman, J. R. & Morrison-Scott, T. C. S.. . Trustees of the British Museum, London
- Prater, S. H.. The Book of Indian Animals. Oxford University Press.
- Nameer, P. O.. . Kerala Forest Department and Kerala Agricultural University. 90+xxv pp.