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List of reptiles of Japan

This list of reptiles of Japan is primarily based on the IUCN Red List, which details the conservation status of some one hundred species.[1] Of these, five are assessed as critically endangered (the hawksbill turtle and yellow pond turtle and the endemic Toyama's ground gecko, Yamashina's ground gecko, and Kikuzato's brook snake), ten as endangered, twelve as vulnerable, thirteen as near threatened, fifty-eight as of least concern, and two as data deficient.[1]

According to statistics accompanying the 2020 Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MoE) Red List, one hundred species and subspecies are to be found, but the conservation status of only fifty-seven is detailed.[2][3][4] Of these, five taxa are critically endangered from a national perspective, nine are endangered, twenty-three vulnerable, seventeen near threatened, and three data deficient.[2][3]

Order: Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) edit

Suborder: Lacertilia (lizards) edit

 
Sakishima tree lizard, D. p. ishigakiense
 
Kuroiwa's ground gecko
 
Green grass lizard, Takydromus smaragdinus
 
Sakishima grass lizard, Takydromus dorsalis
 
Okada's five-lined skink, Plestiodon latiscutatus
 
Tsushima ground skink, Scincella vandenburghi

Suborder: Serpentes (snakes) edit

 
Japanese ratsnake, Elaphe climacophora
 
Japanese woodsnake, Euprepiophis conspicillata
 
Colubrine sea krait, Laticauda colubrina
 
Japanese keelback, Hebius vibakari
 
Mamushi, Gloydius blomhoffii
 
Iwasaki's snail-eater, Pareas iwasakii
 
Habu, Protobothrops flavoviridis
 
Japanese odd-scaled snake, Achalinus spinalis

Order: Testudines (turtles) edit

Superfamily: Chelonioidea (sea turtles) edit

 
Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, near Naha in Japan
 
Hawksbill sea turtle

Superfamily: Chelydroidea (snapping turtles) edit

Superfamily: Testudinoidea (pond turtles and Geoemydid turtles) edit

 
Ryukyu yellow-margined box turtle
 
Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle, Geoemyda japonica

Superfamily: Trionychia (softshell turtles) edit

Japanese names edit

The Japanese names for the taxa found in Japan have been collated and published by the Herpetological Society of Japan [ja].[7]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "IUCN Red List>Advanced Search>Taxonomy: Reptilia - Land Regions: Japan". IUCN. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b 環境省レッドリスト2020掲載種数表 [Ministry of the Environment Red List 2020: Table of Number of Species Listed] (PDF) (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b 環境省レッドリスト2020 [Ministry of the Environment Red List 2020] (PDF) (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  4. ^ レッドデータブック・レッドリスト [Red Data Books and Red Lists] (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Invasive Species of Japan: Reptiles". National Institute for Environmental Studies. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ 岩国のシロヘビ [White Snakes of Iwakuni] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  7. ^ 日本産爬虫両生類標準和名リスト [Standard Japanese Names for the Reptiles and Amphibians of Japan] (in Japanese). Herpetological Society of Japan. 8 September 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.

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