List of animals of Japan

Animals in Japan

Mammals

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

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.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. (series). (volume). Mamushi, 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 Japanese pond turtle Schlegel's Japanese gecko Japanese keelback Achalinus spinalis Japanese striped snake Rhabdophis tigrinus Japanese rat snake Iwasaki's snail-eater

Amphibians

Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) Montane brown frog (Rana ornativentris) Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) Japanese tree frog (Dryophytes japonicus) Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica) Daruma pond frog (Pelophylax porosus) Japanese common toad (Bufo japonicus) Japanese stream toad (Bufo torrenticola)

Insects and arachnids

Luciola cruciata Sasakia charonda Papilio maackii Tanna japonensis Nephila clavata Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) Hyalessa maculaticollis Carabus insulicola Aquatica lateralis Carabus blaptoides Chrysochroa fulgidissima Brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys)

Molluscs

Japonia striatula Haliotis exigua Trochochlamys ogasawarana Haliotis madaka Haliotis discus

See also Wildlife of Japan List of mammals of Japan

References