List of mammals of Kerala
Appearance
This is a list of mammal species found in Kerala, India.
Order: Artiodactyla
[edit]Species: Bos gaurus (gaur / കാട്ടുപോത്ത്)
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Genus: Nilgiritragus
[edit]Species: Nilgiritragus hylocrius (Nilgiri tahr / വരയാട്)
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Genus: Tetracerus
[edit]Species: Tetracerus quadricornis (four-horned antelope / ഉല്ലമാൻ)
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Species: Muntiacus muntjak (Indian muntjac / കേഴമാൻ)
[edit]Species: Rusa unicolor (sambar deer / മ്ലാവ്)
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Species: Sus scrofa cristatus (Indian boar / കാട്ടുപന്നി)
[edit]Family: Tragulidae
[edit]Species: Moschiola indica (Indian spotted chevrotain / കൂരമാൻ)
[edit]Species: Canis aureus naria (Sri Lankan jackal / കുറുനരി )
[edit]Species: Vulpes bengalensis (Bengal fox / കുറുക്കൻ)
[edit]Species: Felis chaus (jungle cat / കാട്ടുമാക്കാൻ / കാട്ടുപൂച്ച)
[edit]Species: Panthera pardus fusca (Indian leopard / ഇന്ത്യൻ പുള്ളിപ്പുലി)
[edit]Species: Panthera tigris tigris (Bengal tiger / ബംഗാൾ കടുവ)
[edit]Genus: Prionailurus
[edit]Species: Prionailurus bengalensis (leopard cat / പൂച്ചപ്പുലി)
[edit]Species: Prionailurus rubiginosus (rusty-spotted cat / തുരുമ്പൻ പൂച്ച)
[edit]Family: Herpestidae
[edit]Species: Urva edwardsii (Indian grey mongoose / നാടൻ കീരി)
[edit]Species: Urva fusca (Indian brown mongoose / തവിടൻ കീരി)
[edit]Species: Urva smithii (ruddy mongoose / ചുണയൻ കീരി)
[edit]Species: Urva vitticolla (stripe-necked mongoose / ചെങ്കീരി)
[edit]Family: Mustelidae
[edit]Species: Aonyx cinerea (Asian small-clawed otter / മല നീർനായ)
[edit]Species: Lutrogale perspicillata (smooth-coated otter / സ്മൂത്ത്-കോട്ടഡ് നീർനായ)
[edit]Species: Martes gwatkinsii (Nilgiri marten / മരനായ)
[edit]Species: Melursus ursinus (sloth bear / തേൻകരടി)
[edit]Family: Viverridae
[edit]Genus: Paradoxurus
[edit]Species: Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Asian palm civet / മരപ്പട്ടി)
[edit]Species: Paradoxurus jerdoni (brown palm civet / തവിടൻ വെരുക്)
[edit]Genus: Viverricula
[edit]Species: Viverricula indica (small Indian civet / പൂവെരുക്)
[edit]Family: Balaenopteridae
[edit]Genus: Balaenoptera
[edit]Species: Balaenoptera acutorostrata (common minke whale / ചെറുതിമിംഗലം)
[edit]Species: Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale / ചാരത്തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Balaenoptera brydei/edeni (Bryde's whale / ബ്രൈഡന്റെ തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale / നീലത്തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale / ചിറകൻ തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale / കൂനൻ തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Family: Delphinidae
[edit]Species: Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin)
[edit]Species: Feresa attenuata (pygmy killer whale / ചിന്ന കൊലയാളിത്തിമിംഗലം)
[edit]Genus: Globicephala
[edit]Species: Globicephala macrorhynchus (short-finned pilot whale / ചെറുചിറകൻ തിമിംഗലം)
[edit]Species: Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin)
[edit]Genus: Lagenodelphis
[edit]Species: Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser's dolphin / ആഴക്കടൽ ഡോൾഫിൻ)
[edit]Species: Orcinus orca (killer whale / കൊലയാളിത്തിമിംഗലം)
[edit]Genus: Peponocephala
[edit]Species: Peponocephala electra (melon-headed whale / മത്തങ്ങാത്തലയൻ തിമിംഗലം)
[edit]Species: Pseudorca crassidens (false killer whale / കപട കൊലയാളിത്തിമിംഗലം)
[edit]Species: Sousa chinensis (Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin)
[edit]Species: Stenella attenuata (pantropical spotted dolphin / പുള്ളി ഡോൾഫിൻ)
[edit]Species: Stenella coeruleoalba (striped dolphin / വരയൻ ഡോൾഫിൻ)
[edit]Species: Stenella longirostris (spinner dolphin)
[edit]Species: Steno bredanensis (rough-toothed dolphin / പരുക്കൻപല്ലൻ ഡോൾഫിൻ)
[edit]Species: Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin)
[edit]Species: Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin / കുപ്പിമൂക്കൻ ഡോൾഫിൻ)
[edit]Species: Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale / കുഞ്ഞൻ എണ്ണത്തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Kogia sima (dwarf sperm whale)
[edit]Family: Phocoenidae
[edit]Genus: Neophocaena
[edit]Species: Neophocaena phocaenoides (finless porpoise / എലിയനേടി)
[edit]Family: Physeteridae
[edit]Species: Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale / എണ്ണത്തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Genus: Indopacetus
[edit]Species: Indopacetus pacificus (tropical bottlenose whale)
[edit]Genus: Mesoplodon
[edit]Species: Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's beaked whale / ചുണ്ടൻ തിമിംഗിലം / കൊമ്പൻ തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Mesoplodon ginkgodens (ginkgo-toothed beaked whale / ജിങ്കോ തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Species: Mesoplodon hotaula (Deraniyagala's beaked whale)
[edit]Species: Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale / കുവിയറുടെ ചുണ്ടൻ തിമിംഗിലം)
[edit]Order: Chiroptera
[edit]Family: Emballonuridae
[edit]Genus: Saccolaimus
[edit]Species: Saccolaimus saccolaimus (naked-rumped pouched bat / സഞ്ചിവാഹി ഉറവാലൻവാവൽ)
[edit]Species: Taphozous melanopogon (black-bearded tomb bat / കരിന്താടി ഉറവാലൻവാവൽ)
[edit]Species: Taphozous longimanus (long-winged tomb bat)
[edit]Family: Hipposideridae
[edit]Genus: Hipposideros
[edit]Species: Hipposideros ater (dusky leaf-nosed bat)
[edit]Species: Hipposideros fulvus (fulvus roundleaf bat / തവിടൻ ഇലമൂക്കൻവാവൽ)
[edit]Species: Hipposideros speoris (Schneider's leaf-nosed bat / ഇന്ത്യൻ ഇലമൂക്കൻവാവൽ)
[edit]Family: Megadermatidae
[edit]Species: Megaderma lyra (greater false vampire bat)
[edit]Species: Megaderma spasma (lesser false vampire bat / ചെറിയ നരിച്ചീർ)
[edit]Family: Molossidae
[edit]Species: Tadarida aegyptiaca (Egyptian free-tailed bat)
[edit]Family: Pteropodidae
[edit]Genus: Cynopterus
[edit]Species: Cynopterus brachyotis (lesser short-nosed fruit bat / ശ്വാനമുഖൻ വവ്വാൽ)
[edit]Species: Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat / കുറുമൂക്കൻ വവ്വാൽ)
[edit]Genus: Eonycteris
[edit]Species: Eonycteris spelaea (cave nectar bat / പ്രഭാത വവ്വാൽ)
[edit]Species: Pteropus giganteus (Indian flying fox / ഇന്ത്യൻ പഴവവ്വാൽ)
[edit]Species: Rousettus leschenaultii (Leschenault's rousette / മഞ്ഞച്ചുവപ്പൻ പഴവവ്വാൽ)
[edit]Family: Rhinolophidae
[edit]Genus: Rhinolophus
[edit]Species: Rhinolophus beddomei (lesser woolly horseshoe bat)
[edit]Species: Rhinolophus lepidus (Blyth's horseshoe bat)
[edit]Species: Rhinolophus pusillus (least horseshoe bat)
[edit]Species: Rhinolophus rouxii (rufous horseshoe bat)
[edit]Family: Vespertilionidae
[edit]Genus: Falsistrellus
[edit]Species: Falsistrellus affinis (chocolate pipistrelle)
[edit]Genus: Harpiocephalus
[edit]Species: Harpiocephalus harpia (lesser hairy-winged bat)
[edit]Species: Kerivoula picta (painted bat / ചിത്രവാവ്വൽ)
[edit]Species: Myotis horsfieldii (Horsfield's bat)
[edit]Species: Myotis montivagus (Burmese whiskered bat)
[edit]Genus: Pipistrellus
[edit]Species: Pipistrellus ceylonicus (Kelaart's pipistrelle / സിലോൺ അടക്കവാവൽ)
[edit]Species: Pipistrellus tenuis (least pipistrelle / കുഞ്ഞൻ അടക്കവാവൽ)
[edit]Species: Scotozous dormeri (Dormer's bat)
[edit]Genus: Scotophilus
[edit]Species: Scotophilus heathii (greater Asiatic yellow bat)
[edit]Species: Scotophilus kuhlii (lesser Asiatic yellow bat)
[edit]Genus: Tylonycteris
[edit]Species: Tylonycteris pachypus (lesser bamboo bat)
[edit]Order: Eulipotyphla
[edit]Family: Erinaceidae
[edit]Genus: Paraechinus
[edit]Species: Paraechinus nudiventris (bare-bellied hedgehog / ഇത്തിൾപന്നി)
[edit]Species: Feroculus feroculus (Kelaart's long-clawed shrew / സിലോൺ നച്ചെലി)
[edit]Species: Suncus dayi (Day's shrew / കാട്ടു നച്ചെലി)
[edit]Species: Suncus dayi (Etruscan shrew)
[edit]Species: Suncus murinus (Asian house shrew / വീട്ടു നച്ചെലി)
[edit]Species: Suncus niger (Indian highland shrew)
[edit]Order: Lagomorpha
[edit]Species: Lepus nigricollis (Indian hare / കാട്ടുമുയൽ)
[edit]Species: Manis crassicaudata (Indian pangolin / ഈനാമ്പേച്ചി)
[edit]Family: Cercopithecidae
[edit]Species: Macaca radiata (bonnet macaque / നാടൻ കുരങ്ങ്)
[edit]Species: Macaca silenus (lion-tailed macaque / സിംഹവാലൻ കുരങ്ങ്)
[edit]Genus: Semnopithecus
[edit]Species: Semnopithecus hypoleucos (black-footed grey langur / കരിംകയ്യൻ കുരങ്ങ്)
[edit]Species: Semnopithecus priam (tufted grey langur / തൊപ്പിഹനുമാൻ കുരങ്ങ്)
[edit]Genus: Trachypithecus
[edit]Species: Trachypithecus johnii (Nilgiri langur / കരിങ്കുരങ്ങ്)
[edit]Species: Loris lydekkerianus (grey slender loris / കുട്ടിത്തേവാങ്ക്)
[edit]Order: Proboscidea
[edit]Family: Elephantidae
[edit]Species: Elephas maximus indicus (Indian elephant / ഇന്ത്യൻ ആന)
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Family: Hystricidae
[edit]Species: Hystrix indica (Indian crested porcupine / മുള്ളൻ പന്നി)
[edit]Species: Bandicota bengalensis (lesser bandicoot rat / തുരപ്പനെലി)
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Species: Bandicota indica (greater bandicoot rat / പെരുച്ചാഴി)
[edit]Species: Golunda ellioti (Indian bush rat / ഗോളുണ്ട എലി)
[edit]Species: Madromys blanfordi (Blanford's rat / വെള്ളവാലൻ എലി)
[edit]Species: Mus booduga (little Indian field mouse / ചെറുചുണ്ടെലി)
[edit]Species: Mus famulus (servant mouse / കാട്ടുചുണ്ടെലി)
[edit]Species: Mus musculus (house mouse / ചുണ്ടെലി)
[edit]Species: Mus platythrix (flat-haired mouse / മുള്ളൻ ചുണ്ടെലി)
[edit]Species: Rattus ranjiniae (Kerala rat / നെല്ലെലി)
[edit]Species: Rattus rattus (black rat / കറുത്ത എലി)
[edit]Species: Rattus satarae (Sahyadris forest rat / സഹ്യാദ്രി കാട്ടെലി)
[edit]Species: Tatera indica (Indian gerbil / കംഗാരു എലി)
[edit]Genus: Vandeleuria
[edit]Species: Vandeleuria nilagirica (Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse / വാലൻ ചുണ്ടെലി)
[edit]Family: Platacanthomyidae
[edit]Genus: Platacanthomys
[edit]Species: Platacanthomys lasiurus (Malabar spiny dormouse / മുള്ളെലി)
[edit]Genus: Funambulus
[edit]Species: Funambulus palmarum (Indian palm squirrel / അണ്ണാറക്കണ്ണൻ)
[edit]Species: Funambulus sublineatus (Nilgiri striped squirrel / കുഞ്ഞൻ അണ്ണാൻ )
[edit]Species: Funambulus tristriatus (jungle palm squirrel / കാട്ടുവരയണ്ണാൻ)
[edit]Genus: Petaurista
[edit]Species: Petaurista philippensis (Indian giant flying squirrel / പാറാൻ)
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Species: Petinomys fuscocapillus (Travancore flying squirrel / കുഞ്ഞൻ പാറാൻ)
[edit]Species: Ratufa indica (Indian giant squirrel / മലയണ്ണാൻ)
[edit]Species: Ratufa macroura (grizzled giant squirrel / ചാമ്പൽ മലയണ്ണാൻ)
[edit]Order: Scandentia
[edit]Species: Anathana ellioti (Madras treeshrew / മരനച്ചെലി)
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Family: Dugongidae
[edit]References
[edit]- Nameer, P. O. (2015). "A checklist of mammals of Kerala, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 7 (13): 7971–7982. doi:10.11609/JoTT.2000.7.13.7971-7982
- Nameer, P. O. (2016). "Checklist of Marine Mammals of Kerala". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 8 (1): 8417–8420. doi:10.11609/jott.2497.8.1.8417-8420
- Kumarran, R. P. (2012). "Cetaceans and cetacean research in India". Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 12 (2): 159–172.