List of animals of Japan

Animals in Japan

See also: List of invasive species in Japan

Ussuri brown bear

Sable

Sea otter

Japanese hare

Daubenton's bat

Japanese serow

Mammals

See also: List of mammals of Japan

• 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

See also: List of Japanese birds

• Japanese quail
• Green pheasant
• Japanese wagtail
• Japanese bantam
• Okinawa woodpecker
• Red-crowned crane
• Blakiston's fish owl

Marine animals

• Japanese sea lily
• Japanese spider crab
• Giant squid
• Nomura's jellyfish
• Firefly squid
• Tachypleus tridentatus

Fish

See also: Category:Fish of Japan and List of freshwater fish of Japan

• 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

See also: Category:Reptiles of Japan

• 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

See also: Category:Amphibians of Japan

• 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

See also: Category:Insects of Japan, List of butterflies of Japan, and List of moths of Japan

• 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

See also: Category:Molluscs of Japan and List of non-marine molluscs of Japan

• Japonia striatula
• Haliotis exigua
• Trochochlamys ogasawarana
• Haliotis madaka
• Haliotis discus

See also

• Wildlife of Japan
• List of mammals of Japan

References

1. 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).
2. Mehrtens JM. (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.