List of animals of 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 and arachnids

 * 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