Animals in Japan

Mammals

Birds

* Japanese quail * Green pheasant * Japanese wagtail * Japanese bantam * Okinawa woodpecker *

Red-crowned crane The red-crowned crane (''Grus japonensis''), also called the Manchurian crane or Japanese crane (; the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cran ...

* Blakiston's fish owl

Marine animals

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

Fish

Reptiles

* 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,

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Mamushi ''Gloydius blomhoffii'', commonly known as the mamushi,Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . Japanese moccasin, Japanese pit viper, Qichun snake, Salmusa or Japanese mamushi,Gumprech ...

, a species of venomous snake that exists in all areas of Japan except certain islands including Okinawa and Amami Ōshima.Mehrtens JM. (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . *''

Gekko hokouensis ''Gekko hokouensis'', also known as the Hokou gecko or Kwangsi gecko,Not to be confused with '' Gekko kwangsiensis'' is a species of gecko. Taxonomy The species was first described by the American herpetologist Clifford H. Pope in 1928 as su ...

'' * Japanese pond turtle * Schlegel's Japanese gecko * Japanese keelback *'' Achalinus spinalis'' *

Japanese striped snake ''Elaphe quadrivirgata'', commonly known as the Japanese four-lined ratsnake or the Japanese striped snake (Japanese: ''shimahebi'' = striped snake), is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake native to Japan. Geographic range It is found in al ...

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Rhabdophis tigrinus ''Rhabdophis tigrinus'', also known commonly as the tiger keelback, ''kkotbaem'', or ''yamakagashi'', is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to East Asia and Southeast Asia. Ma ...

'' * Japanese rat snake *

Iwasaki's snail-eater Iwasaki's snail-eater (''Pareas iwasakii'') is a species of snake in the family Pareidae. The species is endemic to the Yaeyama Islands in the southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Etymology The specific name, ''iwasakii'', is in honor of Japanese me ...

Amphibians

* Japanese giant salamander *

Montane brown frog The montane brown frog or Nikkō frog (''Rana ornativentris'') is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, arable land ...

* Japanese fire belly newt *

Japanese tree frog ''Hyla japonica'', commonly known as the Japanese tree frog, is a species of anuran native to Japan, China, and Korea. ''H. japonica'' is unique in its ability to withstand extreme cold, with some individuals showing cold resistance at temperature ...

Japanese brown frog The Japanese brown frog (''Rana japonica'') is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland, rivers, swamps, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. Characteristics De ...

* Daruma pond frog * Japanese common toad *

Japanese stream toad The Japanese stream toad (''Bufo torrenticola''), also known as the Honshū toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It was first described by Masafumi Matsui in 1976 during research with Kyoto University as a "moderate to large-sized ...

Insects and arachnids

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Luciola cruciata ''Nipponoluciola cruciata'', known as "genji-botaru" (ゲンジボタル) in Japanese, is a species of firefly found in Japan. Its habitat is small ditches and streams, and its larvae are aquatic. It was formerly known as ''Luciola cruciata'' but ...

'' *'' Sasakia charonda'' *''

Papilio maackii ''Papilio maackii'', the alpine black swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Central Asia, Japan, China and South Korea. The larvae feed on ''Zanthoxylum ailanthoides'', '' Euodia meliaefolia'', '' Orixa japonic ...

'' *'' Tanna japonensis'' *''

Nephila clavata ''Trichonephila clavata'', also known as the , is a member of the ''Trichonephila'' genus. The spider can be found throughout Japan (except Hokkaidō), Korea, Taiwan, China, and since 2020, much of northeastern Georgia (U.S.), Georgia and north ...

'' * Asian giant hornet *'' Hyalessa maculaticollis'' *'' Carabus insulicola'' *''

Aquatica lateralis ''Aquatica lateralis'', known as "heike-botaru" (ヘイケボタル) in Japanese, is a species of firefly found in Russia, Japan and Korea. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Luciola''. The larvae are aquatic and live in rice paddies. The geno ...

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Carabus blaptoides ''Carabus blaptoides'' is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae that can be found in Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific ...

'' *'' Chrysochroa fulgidissima'' * Brown marmorated stink bug

Molluscs

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Japonia striatula ''Japonia striatula'' is a species of land snail first described in 1973 They are operculate, terrestrial gastropods in the family Cyclophoridae. This species is endemic to Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'' ...

'' *'' Haliotis exigua'' *''

Trochochlamys ogasawarana ''Trochochlamys ogasawarana'' is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Chronidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Trochochlamys ogasawarana (Pilsbry, 1902). Accessed throug ...

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Haliotis madaka ''Haliotis madaka'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones. Description The size of the shell varies between 60 mm and 246 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Japan a ...

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Haliotis discus ''Haliotis discus'', commonly called disk abalone or Edo abalone, is a species of abalone sea snail. Subspecies * ''Haliotis discus discus'' Reeve, 1846 * ''Haliotis discus hannai'' Ino, 1953 (sometimes wrongly identified as ''Haliotis kamtsch ...

References

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Animals in Japan

Mammals

Birds

Marine animals

Fish

Reptiles

Amphibians

Insects and arachnids

Molluscs

See also

References