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List of mammals of Kerala

This is a list of mammal species found in Kerala, India.

Order: Artiodactyla edit

Family: Bovidae edit

Genus: Bos edit

Species: Bos gaurus (gaur / കാട്ടുപോത്ത്) edit
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Genus: Nilgiritragus edit

Species: Nilgiritragus hylocrius (Nilgiri tahr / വരയാട്) edit
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Genus: Tetracerus edit

Species: Tetracerus quadricornis (four-horned antelope / ഉല്ലമാൻ) edit

Family: Cervidae edit

Genus: Axis edit

Species: Axis axis (chital / പുള്ളിമാൻ) edit

Genus: Muntiacus edit

Species: Muntiacus muntjak (Indian muntjac / കേഴമാൻ) edit

Genus: Rusa edit

Species: Rusa unicolor (sambar deer / മ്ലാവ്) edit

Family: Suidae edit

Genus: Sus edit

Species: Sus scrofa cristatus (Indian boar / കാട്ടുപന്നി) edit

Family: Tragulidae edit

Genus: Moschiola edit

Species: Moschiola indica (Indian spotted chevrotain / കൂരമാൻ) edit

Order: Carnivora edit

Family: Canidae edit

Genus: Canis edit

Species: Canis aureus naria (Sri Lankan jackal / കുറുനരി ) edit

Genus: Cuon edit

Species: Cuon alpinus (Dhole / ചെന്നായ) edit

Genus: Vulpes edit

Species: Vulpes bengalensis (Bengal fox / കുറുക്കൻ) edit

Family: Felidae edit

Genus: Felis edit

Species: Felis chaus (jungle cat / കാട്ടുമാക്കാൻ / കാട്ടുപൂച്ച) edit

Genus: Panthera 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

Genus: Urva 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

Genus: Aonyx edit

Species: Aonyx cinerea (Asian small-clawed otter / മല നീർനായ) edit

Genus: Lutrogale edit

Species: Lutrogale perspicillata (smooth-coated otter / സ്മൂത്ത്-കോട്ടഡ് നീർനായ) edit

Genus: Martes edit

Species: Martes gwatkinsii (Nilgiri marten / മരനായ) edit

Family: Ursidae edit

Genus: Melursus 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

Order: Cetacea 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

Genus: Megaptera edit

Species: Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale / കൂനൻ തിമിംഗിലം) edit

Family: Delphinidae edit

Genus: Delphinus edit

Species: Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) edit

Genus: Feresa edit

Species: Feresa attenuata (pygmy killer whale / ചിന്ന കൊലയാളിത്തിമിംഗലം) edit

Genus: Globicephala edit

Species: Globicephala macrorhynchus (short-finned pilot whale / ചെറുചിറകൻ തിമിംഗലം) edit

Genus: Grampus edit

Species: Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin) edit

Genus: Lagenodelphis edit

Species: Lagenodelphis hosei (Fraser's dolphin / ആഴക്കടൽ ഡോൾഫിൻ) edit

Genus: Orcinus edit

Species: Orcinus orca (killer whale / കൊലയാളിത്തിമിംഗലം) edit

Genus: Peponocephala edit

Species: Peponocephala electra (melon-headed whale / മത്തങ്ങാത്തലയൻ തിമിംഗലം) edit

Genus: Pseudorca edit

Species: Pseudorca crassidens (false killer whale / കപട കൊലയാളിത്തിമിംഗലം) edit

Genus: Sousa edit

Species: Sousa chinensis (Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin) edit

Genus: Stenella edit

Species: Stenella attenuata (pantropical spotted dolphin / പുള്ളി ഡോൾഫിൻ) edit
Species: Stenella coeruleoalba (striped dolphin / വരയൻ ഡോൾഫിൻ) edit
Species: Stenella longirostris (spinner dolphin) edit

Genus: Steno edit

Species: Steno bredanensis (rough-toothed dolphin / പരുക്കൻപല്ലൻ ഡോൾഫിൻ) edit

Genus: Tursiops edit

Species: Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin) edit
Species: Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin / കുപ്പിമൂക്കൻ ഡോൾഫിൻ) edit

Family: Kogiidae edit

Genus: Kogia 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

Genus: Physeter edit

Species: Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale / എണ്ണത്തിമിംഗിലം) edit

Family: Ziphiidae 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

Genus: Ziphius 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

Genus: Taphozous 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

Genus: Megaderma edit

Species: Megaderma lyra (greater false vampire bat) edit
Species: Megaderma spasma (lesser false vampire bat / ചെറിയ നരിച്ചീർ) edit

Family: Molossidae edit

Genus: Tadarida 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

Genus: Pteropus edit

Species: Pteropus giganteus (Indian flying fox / ഇന്ത്യൻ പഴവവ്വാൽ) edit

Genus: Rousettus 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

Genus: Kerivoula edit

Species: Kerivoula picta (painted bat / ചിത്രവാവ്വൽ) edit

Genus: Myotis 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

Genus: Scotozous 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

Family: Soricidae edit

Genus: Feroculus edit

Species: Feroculus feroculus (Kelaart's long-clawed shrew / സിലോൺ നച്ചെലി) edit

Genus: Suncus 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

Family: Leporidae edit

Genus: Lepus edit

Species: Lepus nigricollis (Indian hare / കാട്ടുമുയൽ) edit

Order: Pholidota edit

Family: Manidae edit

Genus: Manis edit

Species: Manis crassicaudata (Indian pangolin / ഈനാമ്പേച്ചി) edit

Order: Primates edit

Family: Cercopithecidae edit

Genus: Macaca 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

Family: Lorisidae edit

Genus: Loris edit

Species: Loris lydekkerianus (grey slender loris / കുട്ടിത്തേവാങ്ക്) edit

Order: Proboscidea edit

Family: Elephantidae edit

Genus: Elephas edit

Species: Elephas maximus indicus (Indian elephant / ഇന്ത്യൻ ആന) edit

Order: Rodentia edit

Family: Hystricidae edit

Genus: Hystrix edit

Species: Hystrix indica (Indian crested porcupine / മുള്ളൻ പന്നി) edit

Family: Muridae edit

Genus: Bandicota edit

Species: Bandicota bengalensis (lesser bandicoot rat / തുരപ്പനെലി) edit
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Species: Bandicota indica (greater bandicoot rat / പെരുച്ചാഴി) edit

Genus: Golunda edit

Species: Golunda ellioti (Indian bush rat / ഗോളുണ്ട എലി) edit

Genus: Madromys edit

Species: Madromys blanfordi (Blanford's rat / വെള്ളവാലൻ എലി) edit

Genus: Mus 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

Genus: Rattus edit

Species: Rattus norvegicus (brown rat / തവിടൻ എലി) 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

Genus: Tatera 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

Family: Sciuridae 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) edit

Genus: Petinomys edit

Species: Petinomys fuscocapillus (Travancore flying squirrel / കുഞ്ഞൻ പാറാൻ) edit

Genus: Ratufa edit

Species: Ratufa indica (Indian giant squirrel / മലയണ്ണാൻ) edit
Species: Ratufa macroura (grizzled giant squirrel / ചാമ്പൽ മലയണ്ണാൻ) edit

Order: Scandentia edit

Family: Tupaiidae edit

Genus: Anathana edit

Species: Anathana ellioti (Madras treeshrew / മരനച്ചെലി) edit
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Order: Sirenia edit

Family: Dugongidae edit

Genus: Dugong edit

Species: Dugong dugon (dugong / കടൽപ്പശു) 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.
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