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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.

Order: Insectivora

Family Erinaceidae: hedgehogs

Family Talpidae: moles

Family Soricidae: shrews

Soricinae

Crocidurinae

Order: Scandentia

Family Tupaiidae: treeshrews

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

Slender loris in Tamil Nadu

Family Lorisidae: lorises

Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys

Bonnet macaque
Tufted grey langur

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

Indian wolf
Dhole

Family Felidae: cats

Indian leopard
Asian golden cat

Family Viverridae: civets and palm civets

Small Indian civet
Asian palm civet

Family Prionodontidae: Asiatic linsangs

Family Ursidae: bears

Sloth bear

Family Ailuropodidae: pandas

Family Mustelidae: mustelids

Yellow-throated marten
Greater hog badger

Family Herpestidae: mongooses

Ruddy mongoose

Family Hyaenidae: hyenas

Striped hyena in Gujarat

Order: Cetacea: whales, dolphins, and porpoises

Spinner dolphin in the Bay of Bengal

Family Delphinidae

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

Indian wild ass in Little Rann of Kutch

Family Equidae: horses

Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses

Order: Artiodactyla: even-toed ungulates

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

Family Suidae: pigs

Indian spotted chevrotain in the Anaimalai Hills

Family Tragulidae: chevrotains

Family Moschidae

Chital male with two females in Kanha National Park

Family Cervidae: deer

Nilgiri tahr

Family Bovidae: bovids

Order: Pholidota: pangolins

Indian pangolin in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

Family Manidae: pangolins

Order: Rodentia

Indian palm squirrel in Bengaluru
Indian giant squirrel in Kerala

Family Sciuridae: squirrels

Family Muridae: Old World rats, mice

Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines

Order: Lagomorpha: hares, rabbits, pikas

Indian hare at Bandipur National Park

Family Leporidae: hares and rabbits

Family Ochotonidae: pikas

See also

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