List of animals of Japan
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Animals
Mammals
- Amami rabbit
- Asian particolored bat
- Azumi shrew
- Birdlike noctule
- Bonin flying fox
- Echigo mole
- Endo's pipistrelle
- Daubenton's bat
- Dsinezumi shrew
- Forest tube-nosed bat
- Fraternal myotis
- Frosted myotis
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Hokkaido red-backed vole
- Hokkaidō wolf
- Honshū wolf
- Horsfield's shrew
- Human
- Ikonnikov's bat
- Imaizumi's horseshoe bat
- Iriomote cat
- Japanese dormouse
- Japanese badger
- Japanese grass vole
- Japanese hare
- Japanese macaque
- Japanese mole
- Japanese mountain mole
- Japanese raccoon dog
- Japanese red-backed vole
- Japanese sea lion
- Japanese shrew mole
- Japanese serow
- Japanese squirrel
- Japanese water shrew
- Japanese weasel
- 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 mouse
- Ryukyu shrew
- Ryukyu spiny rat
- Ryukyu tube-nosed bat
- Sado mole
- Sado shrew
- 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
- Ussuri brown bear
- Wild boar
- Yanbaru whiskered bat
Birds
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, 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]
References
- ^ 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.