List of MAMMALIA species in Japan



This is a list of MAMMALIA in Japan according to the IUCN Red List.

This list was last updated 2019-09-14

 

This list contains only species that have been assessed for the IUCN Red List. It is therefore not representative of all the species in the country.

Species counts by country: Total | Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Reptiles | Vascular Plants.

scientific_namecommon_nametaxonidcategory
Pentalagus furnessi Amami Rabbit 16559 EN
Euroscaptor mizura Japanese Mountain Mole 8385 LC
Mogera uchidai Senkaku Mole 14563 VU
Macaca cyclopis Formosan Rock Macaque 12550 LC
Macaca fuscata Japanese Macaque 12552 LC
Pteromys momonga Japanese Flying Squirrel 18701 LC
Pteropus dasymallus Ryukyu Flying Fox 18722 VU
Lepus brachyurus Japanese Hare 41275 LC
Pteropus pselaphon Bonin Flying Fox 18752 EN
Petaurista leucogenys Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel 16720 LC
Sorex shinto Shinto Shrew 41417 LC
Mogera imaizumii Small Japanese Mole 41465 LC
Mogera wogura Large Japanese Mole 41467 LC
Myodes andersoni Anderson's Red-backed Vole 16899 LC
Myodes smithii Smith's Red-backed Vole 16900 LC
Diplothrix legata Ryukyus Islands Tree Rat 6671 EN
Dymecodon pilirostris True's Shrew Mole 41488 LC
Urotrichus talpoides Japanese Shrew Mole 41489 LC
Phoca vitulina ssp. stejnegeri Western Pacific Harbor Seal 17014 DD
Myodes rex Hokkaido Red-backed Vole 39591 LC
Martes melampus Japanese Marten 41650 LC
Mustela itatsi Japanese Weasel 41656 NT
Zalophus japonicus Japanese Sea Lion 41667 EX
Histriophoca fasciata Ribbon Seal 41670 LC
Pusa hispida ssp. ochotensis Okhotsk Sea Ringed Seal 41677 LC
Myotis yanbarensis Yanbaru Whiskered Bat 29484 CR
Murina ryukyuana Ryukyu Tube-nosed Bat 29485 EN
Pipistrellus endoi Endo's Pipistrelle 17340 EN
Glirulus japonicus Japanese Dormouse 9246 LC
Meles anakuma Japanese Badger 136242 LC
Microtus montebelli Japanese Grass Vole 13446 LC
Crocidura watasei Watase's Shrew 136341 LC
Miniopterus fuscus Southeast Asian Long-fingered Bat 13564 EN
Mogera tokudae Tokuda's Mole 13603 NT
Mogera etigo Etigo Mole 13604 EN
Tokudaia muenninki Muennink's Spiny Rat 21972 CR
Tokudaia osimensis Ryukyu Spiny Rat 21973 EN
Crocidura orii Orii's Shrew 5590 EN
Plecotus sacrimontis 136664 LC
Tokudaia tokunoshimensis Tokunoshima Spiny Rat 136695 EN
Sciurus lis Japanese Squirrel 20014 LC
Nyctalus furvus Japanese Noctule 136765 VU
Eptesicus japonensis Japanese Short-tailed Bat 136823 EN
Murina tenebrosa Gloomy Tube-nosed Bat 13948 CR
Murina ussuriensis Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat 13950 LC
Apodemus argenteus Small Japanese Field Mouse 42642 LC
Chimarrogale platycephalus Japanese Water Shrew 40615 LC
Crocidura dsinezumi Dsinezumi Shrew 40627 LC
Capricornis crispus Japanese Serow 3811 LC
Prionailurus bengalensis ssp. iriomotensis Iriomote Cat 18151 CR
Myotis ikonnikovi Ikonnikov's Bat 14168 LC
Apodemus speciosus Large Japanese Field Mouse 1903 LC
Myotis pruinosus Frosted Myotis 14192 EN
Sorex hosonoi Azumi Shrew 20386 LC
Hipposideros turpis Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat 10165 NT

 

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Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups:
  • Extinct (EX) – beyond reasonable doubt that the species is no longer extant.
  • Extinct in the wild (EW) – survives only in captivity, cultivation and/or outside native range, as presumed after exhaustive surveys.
  • Critically endangered (CR) – in a particularly and extremely critical state.
  • Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered.
  • Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 red list criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention.
  • Near threatened (NT) – close to being at high risk of extinction in the near future.
  • Least concern (LC) – unlikely to become extinct in the near future.
  • Data deficient (DD)
  • Not evaluated (NE)