List of animals in Japan
# List of animals in Japan

## Animals in Japan

### Mammals

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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.
* Mamushi, a species of venomous snake that exists in all areas of Japan except certain islands including Okinawa and Amami Ōshima.
* 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

* 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

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