华南虎
Forty-nine vertebrate species are endemic to China and three are endemic to the Wuyi Mountains. The latter are the bird David's parrotbill ("Neosuthora davidiana"), Pope's spiny toad ("Vibrissaphora liui"), and the bamboo snake "Pseudoxenodon karlschmidti" (family Colubridae). Other known endangered species in the area include South China tiger ("Panthera tigris amoyensis"), clouded leopard ("Neofelis nebulosa"), hairy-fronted muntjac ("Muntiacus crinifrons"), Mainland serow ("Capricornis milneedwardsii"– a goat antelope), Cabot's tragopan ("Tragopan caboti"), Chinese black-backed pheasant ("Syrmaticus ellioti"), Chinese giant salamander ("Andrias davidianus"), and the golden Kaiser-i-Hind ("Teinopalpus aureus" – a swallowtail butterfly).