List of animals of Japan
Animals in Japan
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Mammals
[edit]- Amami rabbit
- Asian particolored bat
- Akita inu
- Azumi shrew
- Birdlike noctule
- Bonin flying fox
- Echigo mole
- Endo's pipistrelle
- Ezo red fox
- Daubenton's bat
- Dsinezumi shrew
- Fraternal myotis
- Frosted myotis
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Hokkaido red-backed vole
- Hokkaidō wolf
- Honshū wolf
- Horsfield's shrew
- Ikonnikov's bat
- Imaizumi's horseshoe bat
- Iriomote cat
- Japanese badger
- Japanese boar
- Japanese Bobtail
- Japanese black bear
- Japanese dormouse
- Japanese dwarf flying squirrel
- Japanese giant flying squirrel
- Japanese grass vole
- Japanese hare
- Japanese house bat
- Japanese macaque
- Japanese marten
- Japanese mole
- Japanese mountain mole
- Japanese raccoon dog
- Japanese red-backed vole
- Japanese red fox
- Japanese sea lion
- Japanese serow
- Japanese shrew mole
- Japanese squirrel
- Japanese water shrew
- Japanese weasel
- Kerama deer
- Kobe mole
- La Touche's free-tailed bat
- Large Japanese field mouse
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
- Muennink's spiny rat
- Northern pika
- Okinawa flying fox
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat
- Ryukyu mouse
- Ryukyu shrew
- Ryukyu spiny rat
- Ryukyu tube-nosed bat
- Sado mole
- Sado shrew
- Shiba Inu
- Shinano whiskered bat
- Shinto shrew
- Siberian chipmunk
- Sika deer
- Small Japanese field mouse
- Small Japanese mole
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
- Sturdee's pipistrelle
- Tanezumi rat
- Tokunoshima spiny rat
- True's shrew mole
- Tsushima leopard cat
- Ussuri brown bear
- Wild boar
- Yanbaru whiskered bat
- Yezo sika deer
Birds
[edit]- Japanese quail
- Green pheasant
- Japanese wagtail
- Japanese bantam
- Okinawa woodpecker
- Red-crowned crane
- Blakiston's fish owl
Marine animals
[edit]- Japanese sea lily
- Japanese spider crab
- Giant squid
- Nomura's jellyfish
- Firefly squid
- Tachypleus tridentatus
Fish
[edit]- Anago (conger eel)
- Ayu
- Biwia yodoensis
- Biwia zezera
- Fugu (pufferfish)
- Ginbuna
- Goblin shark
- Japanese amberjack
- Hypomesus japonicus
- Hypomesus nipponensis
- Japanese common catfish
- Japanese white crucian carp
- Katsuo (bonito)
- Koi
- Maguro (tuna)
- Nigorobuna
- Oily bitterling
- Saba (mackerel)
- Sake/shake (salmon)
- Sakhalin taimen (stringfish)
- Sanma (Pacific saury)
- Tanakia lanceolata
- Viper dogfish
- Japanese roughshark
Reptiles
[edit]- Habu, four different species of venomous snake that exist in certain islands including Okinawa, the Sakishima Islands and the Tokara Islands, but not on the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokkaido.[1]
- Mamushi, a species of venomous snake that exists in all areas of Japan except certain islands including Okinawa and Amami Ōshima.[2]
- Gekko hokouensis
- Japanese pond turtle
- Schlegel's Japanese gecko
- Japanese keelback
- Achalinus spinalis
- Japanese striped snake
- Rhabdophis tigrinus
- Japanese rat snake
- Iwasaki's snail-eater
Amphibians
[edit]- Japanese giant salamander
- Montane brown frog
- Japanese fire belly newt
- Japanese tree frog
- Japanese brown frog
- Daruma pond frog
- Japanese common toad
- Japanese stream toad
Insects and arachnids
[edit]- Luciola cruciata
- Sasakia charonda
- Papilio maackii
- Tanna japonensis
- Nephila clavata
- Asian giant hornet
- Hyalessa maculaticollis
- Carabus insulicola
- Aquatica lateralis
- Carabus blaptoides
- Chrysochroa fulgidissima
- Brown marmorated stink bug
Molluscs
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ Mehrtens JM. (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.