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Template:Wildlife 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 (Sorex minutus) to the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). They include nocturnal small mammals endemic to India such as the Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina). While the status of many of these species is unknown, some are definitely extinct. Populations of many carnivores are threatened. The tiger (Panthera tigris), dhole (Cuon alpinus), and Malabar large-spotted civet (Viverra civettina) are some of the most endangered carnivore species. Two rhinoceros species are extinct within the Indian region, but the remaining species, the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) has its last stronghold within India. The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) was extirpated from India in the 1950s.

Order: Insectivora

Family Erinaceidae: hedgehogs

Family Talpidae: moles

Family Soricidae: shrews

Soricinae

Crocidurinae

Order: Scandentia

Family Tupaiidae: treeshrews

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Indian tree-shrew (Anathana ellioti) in Yercaud, India

Tupaiinae

Order: Chiroptera: bats

Family Pteropodidae: fruit bats

Family Rhinopomatidae: mouse-tailed bats

Family Emballonuridae: sheath-tailed bats

Family Megadermatidae: false vampire bats

Family Rhinolophidae: horseshoe bats

Family Hipposideridae: leaf-nosed bats

Family Vespertilionidae: evening bats

Family Molossidae: free-tailed bats

Order: Primates

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Slender loris in Tamil Nadu

Family Lorisidae: lorises

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Bonnet macaque in southern India
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Tufted grey langur in Biligiriranga Hills

Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys

Family Hylobatidae: lesser apes (gibbons)

Earlier classified as a single species, the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) has been reclassified as follows:[6]

Order: Carnivora: Carnivorans

Family Canidae: canines/dogs

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Family Felidae: cats

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Family Viverridae: civets and palm civets

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Family Prionodontidae: Asiatic linsangs

Family Ursidae: bears

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Sloth bear

Family Ailuropodidae: pandas

Family Mustelidae: mustelids

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Yellow-throated marten
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Oriental small-clawed otter in the Western Ghats

Family Herpestidae: mongooses

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Ruddy mongoose

Family Hyaenidae: hyenas

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Striped hyena in Gujarat

Order: Cetacea: whales, dolphins, and porpoises

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Spinner dolphin in the Bay of Bengal

Family Delphinidae

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Gangetic dolphin

Family Platanistidae: river dolphins

Family Balaenopteridae

Family Balaenidae

Family Ziphiidae

Family Phocoenidae

Family Kogiidae

Family Physeteridae

Order: Sirenia

Family Dugongidae

Order: Proboscidea

Family Elephantidae: elephants

Order: Perissodactyla: odd-toed ungulates

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Indian wild ass in Little Rann of Kutch

Family Equidae: horses

Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses

Order: Artiodactyla: even-toed ungulates

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Pygmy hog in Assam breeding centre
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Indian boar in the Anaimalai Hills

Family Suidae: pigs

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Indian spotted chevrotain in the Anaimalai Hills

Family Tragulidae: chevrotains

Family Moschidae

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Chital male with two females in Kanha National Park

Family Cervidae: deer

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Nilgiri tahr

Family Bovidae: bovids

Order: Pholidota: pangolins

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Indian pangolin in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

Family Manidae: pangolins

Order: Rodentia

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Indian palm squirrel in Bengaluru
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Indian giant squirrel in Kerala

Family Sciuridae: squirrels

Family Muridae: Old World rats, mice

Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines

Order: Lagomorpha: hares, rabbits, pikas

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Indian hare at Bandipur National Park

Family Leporidae: hares and rabbits

Family Ochotonidae: pikas

See also

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