List of animals of Japan explained

Animals in Japan

See also: List of invasive species in Japan.

Mammals

See also: List of mammals of Japan.

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: List of freshwater fish of Japan.

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]
• 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
• 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: 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: 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

Notes and 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. (series). (volume).
2. Mehrtens JM. (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. .