List of animals of Japan
Animals in Japan
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''
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