Animals in Indonesia — page 2
93 mammal species are recorded in Indonesia in this dataset, 39 of them in a threatened Red List category. Indonesia sits in Asia, where 324 species are recorded in total. Every species below is listed because the range description of its IUCN Red List assessment names Indonesia.
They belong to 31 families, the best represented being Muridae (19), Sciuridae (10), Soricidae (8). By Red List category: 1 Extinct, 9 Critically Endangered, 15 Endangered, 15 Vulnerable, 5 Near Threatened, 41 Least Concern, 7 Data Deficient.
These counts come from the text of each assessment rather than from an official country checklist, so a species whose assessment names a region without naming Indonesia is missing here, and a wide-ranging animal is counted in every country it crosses. All 93 of them have a full written profile.
- Species recorded
- 93
- Threatened
- 39
- Continent
- Asia
- Data updated
- August 9, 2026
Conservation status in Indonesia
The families found in Indonesia
- Muridae 19
- Sciuridae 10
- Soricidae 8
- Felidae 6
- Molossidae 6
- Pteropodidae 6
- Bovidae 3
- Dasyuridae 3
Every species recorded in Indonesia
Species 51 to 93 of 93, written profiles first.

Ear-spot Squirrel
Callosciurus adamsi
Near ThreatenedEarless Water Rat
Crossomys moncktoni
Least Concern
Eurasian Otter
Lutra lutra
Near ThreatenedForbes's Tree Mouse
Chiruromys forbesi
Least Concern
Gould's Wattled Bat
Chalinolobus gouldii
Least Concern
Gray-bellied Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
Chiropodomys muroides
Data Deficient
Greater Naked Bat
Cheiromeles torquatus
Least Concern
Greater Northern Free-tailed Bat
Mops jobensis
Least Concern
Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
Chiropodomys major
Least Concern
Habbema Dasyure
Murexia habbema
Least Concern
Hoary Wattled Bat
Chalinolobus nigrogriseus
Least Concern
Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
Chiropodomys gliroides
Least Concern
Kinabalu Squirrel
Callosciurus baluensis
Least Concern
Kloss's Squirrel
Callosciurus albescens
Data Deficient
Lesser Naked Bat
Cheiromeles parvidens
Least ConcernLesser Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
Chiropodomys pusillus
Data DeficientLesser Tree Mouse
Chiruromys vates
Least Concern
Long-footed Shrew
Crocidura crenata
Least Concern
Long-nosed Dasyure
Murexia naso
Least Concern
Long-tailed Pygmy Possum
Cercartetus caudatus
Least Concern
Malayan Shrew
Crocidura malayana
Least Concern
Marbled Cat
Pardofelis marmorata
Near Threatened
Montane Hill Rat
Bunomys penitus
Least Concern
Northeastern Peninsula Bunomys
Frateromys fratrorum
Least Concern
Oriental Shrew
Crocidura orientalis
Least Concern
Plantain Squirrel
Callosciurus notatus
Least Concern
Prevost's Squirrel
Callosciurus prevostii
Least Concern
Pygmy Fruit Bat
Aethalops alecto
Least Concern
Short-beaked Echidna
Tachyglossus aculeatus
Least Concern
Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
Least Concern
Spotted Wrinkle-lipped Bat
Mops bivittatus
Least Concern
Sugar Glider
Petaurus breviceps
Least ConcernSulawesi Shrew Mouse
Crunomys celebensis
Near Threatened
Sumatran Long-tailed Shrew
Crocidura paradoxura
Least Concern
Sumatran Water Shrew
Chimarrogale sumatrana
Data Deficient
Sunda Flying Lemur
Galeopterus variegatus
Least Concern
Tail-less Leaf-nosed Bat
Coelops frithii
Near Threatened
Thomas's Flying Squirrel
Aeromys thomasi
Least Concern
Timor Shrew
Crocidura tenuis
Data Deficient
Trident Leaf-nosed Bat
Aselliscus tricuspidatus
Least ConcernUneven-toothed Rat
Anisomys imitator
Least Concern
White-toothed Mouse
Brassomys albidens
Data Deficient
Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat
Mops plicatus
Least Concern
Where to go from Indonesia
The countries in Asia that share the most species with Indonesia, by number of species recorded in both.
Species data from the IUCN Red List; countries are derived from the range description of each assessment. Last refreshed on August 9, 2026.
