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Japan
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Long-tailed tit, Hokkaido subspecies

Common kingfisher

Blakiston's fish owl

Siberian flying squirrel, Hokkaido subspecies

Spotted seal

Flapjack octopus

Naked sea butterfly

Japanese giant salamander

Japanese rhinoceros beetle

Nipponoluciola cruciata

Great purple emperor

Tardigrade, water bear

Japanese grass vole

Small Japanese field mouse

Large Japanese field mouse

Goat

Japanese serow

Yakushima sika deer

Horse

Japanese hare

Mountain hare, Hokkaido subspecies

Japanese macaque

Japanese marten

Japanese badger

Eurasian harvest mouse

Small Japanese mole

Japanese mole

Raccoon dog

Domestic rabbit

Japanese giant flying squirrel

Harbor seal

Japanese house bat

Tsushima leopard cat

Orii's flying fox

Bonin flying fox

Japanese squirrel

Eurasian least shrew, Hokkaido subspecies

Long-clawed shrew

Wild boar

Amami spiny rat

Asian black bear

Red fox

Japanese sparrowhawk

Mandarin duck

Eurasian teal

Mallard

Eastern spot-billed duck

Greater white-fronted goose

Snow goose

Lesser white-fronted goose

Bean goose

White-naped crane

Golden eagle

Grey heron

Common pochard

Tufted duck

Chinese bamboo partridge

Brant goose

Oriental stork

Japanese wood pigeon

Red-headed wood pigeon

Japanese quail

Azure-winged magpie

Bewick's swan

Whooper swan

Peregrine falcon

Tufted puffin

Eurasian coot

Common moorhen

Lidth's jay

Japanese night heron

Red-crowned crane

Eurasian oystercatcher

White-tailed eagle

Steller's sea eagle

Rock ptarmigan

Eurasian wigeon

Crested ibis

Mountain hawk-eagle

Japanese scops owl

Japanese tit

Black-faced spoonbill

Northern shoveler

Eurasian collared dove

Ural owl

Copper pheasant

Little grebe

White-bellied green pigeon

Japanese rat snake

Japanese keelback

Diploderma polygonatum ishigakiense

Japanese pond turtle

Sakishima grass lizard

Miyako grass lizard

Eastern Japanese common toad

Japanese fire-bellied newt

East Japan tree frog

Wrinkled frog

Tokyo salamander

Eiffinger's tree frog

Pelophylax porosus porosus

Japanese brown frog

Montane brown frog

Forest green tree frog

Schlegel's green tree frog

Yellowfin goby

Small-scale bitterling

Blenny

Clark's anemonefish

Splitfin flashlightfish

Splendid alfonsino

Yellow and blueback fusilier

Valentin's sharpnose puffer

Salmon snailfish

Wrought iron butterflyfish

Sea toad

Humphead wrasse

Spiny red gurnard

Whitespotted conger

Spot-fin porcupinefish

Kawakawa

Striped boarfish

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse

Flathead grey mullet

Whitemargin unicornfish

Japanese rice fish

Spotnape cardinalfish

Longnose hawkfish

Shuttles hoppfish

Striped eel catfish

Marbled flounder

Luna lionfish

Flapnose ray

Whitespotted pygmy filefish

Striped bonito

Japanese pilchard

Tokyo bitterling

Pacific bluefin tuna

Japanese jack mackerel

John dory

Staghorn coral

Diving bell spider

Moon jellyfish

Chinese diving beetle

Bubble-tip anemone

Japanese freshwater crab

Purple sea urchin

Paper kite

Ilyoplax pusilla

Giant water bug

Migratory locust

Aquatica lateralis

Japanese spider crab

Mandarina hirasei

Mandarina mandarina

Common octopus

Manila clam

Bigfin reef squid

Sea firefly

Threadsail filefish

Domestic duck

Leopard cat

Common bottlenose dolphin

Pacific white-sided dolphin

Narrow-ridged finless porpoise

Steller sea lion

Northern fur seal

Ezo red fox

Iriomote cat

Japanese weasel

Ermine

Japanese dormouse

Eurasian red squirrel, Hokkaido subspecies

Siberian chipmunk

Amami rabbit

Hokkaido sika deer

Cattle

Pig

Eurasian goshawk

Black kite

Osprey

Northern boobok

Eurasian tree sparrow

Barn swallow

Warbling white-eye

Japanese bush warbler

Brown-eared bulbul

White-cheeked starling

White wagtail

Oriental turtle dove

Large-billed crow

Carrion crow

Eurasian jay

Varied tit

Japanese pygmy woodpecker

Great spotted woodpecker

Green pheasant

Okinawa rail

Red-flanked bluetail

Blue-and-white flycatcher

Daurian redstart

Black-tailed gull

Black-headed gull

Short-tailed albatross

Great cormorant

Great egret

Little egret

Loggerhead sea turtle

Green sea turtle

Hawksbill sea turtle

Chinese softshell turtle

Japanese skink

Japanese gecko

Japanese grass lizard

Japanese striped snake

Tiger keelback

Mamushi

Habu

Dark-spotted frog

Kajika frog

Sword-tailed newt

Anderson's crocodile newt

Clown anemonefish

Palette surgeonfish

Japanese bullhead shark

Sand tiger shark

Reef manta ray

Red stingray

Ocean sunfish

Crowned seahorse

Oriental butterflyfish

Moorish idol

Long-spine porcupinefish

Japanese pufferfish

Bluespotted boxfish

Kidako moray

Splendid garden eel

Blue-green damselfish

Sapphire devil

Barred knifejaw

Red seabream

Pacific saury

Skipjack tuna

Japanese amberjack

Chub mackerel

Chum salmon

Largehead hairtail

Yellow goosefish

Pacific footballfish

Oarfish

Japanese lumpsucker

Olive flounder

Bering wolffish

North Pacific giant octopus

Firefly squid

Golden cuttlefish

Giant squid

Japanese sea nettle

Spotted jelly

Mikado comb jelly

Festive Sea Slug

Blue bat star

Japanese sea cucumber

Pagurus filholi

Japanese spiny lobster

Snow crab

Tri-spine horseshoe crab

Northern Medaka

Japanese eel

Amur catfish

Common carp

Goldfish

Ayu sweetfish

White-spotted char

Masu salmon

Pond loach

Pale chub

Japanese crayfish

Saw stag beetle

Miyama stag beetle

Japanese giant stag beetle

Small stag beetle

Asian swallowtail

Old World swallowtail

Cabbage white

Chestnut tiger

Blue admiral

Japanese luehdorfia

Japanese giant dragonfly

Lesser emperor

White-tailed skimmer

Autumn darter

Large brown cicada

Minmin cicada

Bear cicada

Evening cicada

Elongate Cicada

Japanese giant mantis

Oriental long-headed grasshopper

Emma field cricket

Bell cricket

Seven-spot ladybird

Asian lady beetle

Japanese honey bee

Asian giant hornet

Japanese carpenter ant

Japanese jewel beetle

Chinese tiger beetle

Water strider

Water stick insect

White-spotted longicorn beetle

Joro spider

Euhadra peliomphala

European mantis

Wasp spider

European hornet

Red-banded sand wasp

Greenbottle

Miyako toad

Scissortail sergeant

Indo-Pacific sergeant

Red-spotted bandfish

Yellowfin seabream

Blackhead seabream

Eyestripe surgeonfish

Japan surgeonfish

Lined surgeonfish

Whitecheek surgeonfish

Brown surgeonfish

Orangeband surgeonfish

Convict surgeonfish

Yellowfin surgeonfish

Striped Bitterling

Flat Bitterling

Razorfish

Ocellated eagle ray

African pompano

Scrawled filefish

Golden damselfish

Tomato clownfish

Pink anemonefish

Four-fingered rockskipper

Warty frogfish

Spotfin frogfish

Painted frogfish

Striated frogfish

Small toothed jobfish

Black cardinalfish

Smooth lumpsucker

Silvery conger

White-spotted puffer

Blackspotted puffer

Stellate puffer

Dusky blenny

Goldribbon soapfish

Chinese trumpetfish

Orange-lined triggerfish

Clown triggerfish

Red-spotted blenny

Diana's hogfish

Pygmy leatherjacket

Horsehead tilefish

Goatsbeard brotula

Blue and gold fusilier

Redbelly yellowtail fusilier

Yellowsail red bass

Japanese parrotfish

Dark chub

Compressed toby

Brown-lined puffer

Sunrise perch

Black jack

Japanese flagfin

Doederlein's cardinalfish

Half-lined cardinal

Crown-of-thorns starfish

Table coral

Hairy blackfish

Crystal jelly

Parasitic isopod

Sea lily bryozoan

Elegant squat lobster

Alveopora coral

Dwarf brittle star

Bristle worm

Japanese feather star

Anthoplexaura dimorpha

Aquilonastra minor

Owston's leather urchin

Winged argonaut

Deep Sea Spider

Asteriomyzostomum hercules

Magnificent Fire Urchin

Sharkskin basket star

Astrocladus coniferus

Astropecten scoparius

Radiant sea urchin

Floral egg crab

Red Reef Crab

Pineapple coral

Caenopedina mirabilis

Smooth Box Crab

Rough Box Crab

Common Box Crab

Calasterias toyamensis

Octopus mutilans

Spider decorator crab

Japanese goose barnacle

Maple leaf triton

Chinese box turtle

Bigeye trevally

Japanese white crucian carp

Blacktip reef shark

Bicolor angelfish

Rusty angelfish

Herald's angelfish

Pearlscale angelfish

Miniata grouper

Darkfin hind

Draughtsboard shark

Gluttonous goby

Prickly leatherjacket

Threadfin butterflyfish

Saddle butterflyfish

Sunburst butterflyfish

Lined butterflyfish

Raccoon butterflyfish

Japanese butterflyfish

Eightband butterflyfish

Spotband butterflyfish

Latticed butterflyfish

Mirror butterflyfish

Pacific double-saddle butterflyfish

Vagabond butterflyfish

Vermiculated angelfish

Blue-striped Angelfish

Milkfish

Chaunax fimbriatus

Redbreast wrasse

Five-lined cardinalfish

Japanese flyingfish

Spotfin burrfish

Brownbanded bamboo shark

Japanese Warbonnet

Scarbreast tuskfin

White-tailed Chromis

Black-axil chromis

Stout-body chromis

Smokey chromis

Pearl-spot chromis

Goldtail demoiselle

King demoiselle

Mandarin dogfish

Threadfin wrasse

Yellow hawkfish

Dwarf hawkfish

Longfinned bullseye

Japanese Perch

Clown coris

Yellowtail coris

Japanese Coris

Messmate pipefish

Twospot surgeonfish

Striated surgeonfish

Kole tang

Birdbeak burrfish

Swallowtail hawkfish

Oriental flying gurnard

Whitetail dascyllus

Blacktail dascyllus

Reticulated damselfish

Threespot dascyllus

Pitted stingray

Yellowback seabream

Painted sweetlips

Dictyosoma burgeri

Barred soapfish

Ditrema temminckii

Ebinania vermiculata

Live sharksucker

Bicolor blenny

Reticulated Hookjaw Moray

Shotted halibut

Sling-jaw wrasse

Hong Kong grouper

Areolate grouper

Banded grouper

Longtooth grouper

Brown-banded butterflyfish

Langford's cowry

Convex Crab

Violet-eyed Swimming Crab

Upside-down jellyfish

Cavernulina orientalis

Ceratocarcinus trilobatus

Japanese orange sea star

Knobbed triton

Crucifix crab

Chicoreus asianus

Chironex yamaguchii

Golden Bristle Worm

Granulated sea star

Chorilia japonica

Spotted White Sea Slug

Cinusa nippon

Clavularia racemosa

Japanese Sea Biscuit

Coeloplana willeyi

Coelopleurus maculatus

Coelopleurus undulatus

Strawberry conch

Geography cone

Textile cone

Velutin Snail

Coronaster volsellatus

Coscinasterias acutispina

Disco clam

Cushion star

Cycloes granulosa

Cymo melanodactylus

Tiger cowrie

Dardanus arrosor

Mauve Eyed Hermit Crab

Anemone Hermit Crab

Dendrogaster adhaerens

Dendrogaster tobasuii

Dendrophyllia cribrosa

Diadema clarki

Long-spined sea urchin

Chilean Hermit Crab

Distolasterias nipon

Dorippe sinica

Ebalia tosaensis

Echinomuricea peterseni

Ellisella plexauroides

Elthusa moritakii

Red reef lobster

Epimenia babai

Gracilechinus lucidus

Gold ringer

Orisarma dehaani

Black-banded sea krait

Clouded salamander

Agonomalus proboscidalis

Whitefin trevally

Redlip morwong

Spottedtail morwong

Brown spotted reef cod

Speckled blue grouper

Blacktip grouper

Brown-marbled grouper

Malabar grouper

Oneblotch grouper

Comet grouper

Dot-dash grouper

Camouflage grouper

Halfmoon grouper

Inshore hagfish

Nipponic Lumpsucker

Spotted lumpsucker

Bluespotted cornetfish

Yellow longnose butterflyfish

Furcina osimae

Tiger shark

Lamarck's angelfish

Big Roughy

Mezina Nibbler

Largescale blackfish

Golden trevally

Striped large-eye bream

Gnathopogon elongatus

Bird wrasse

Goldenstriped soapfish

Japanese large-eye bream

Grey large-eye bream

Y-patterned moray

Giant moray

Gymnothorax neglectus

Australian mottled moray

Reticulated Moray

Y-bar Moray

Japanese butterfly ray

Canary wrasse

Checkerboard wrasse

Wrasse

Starry handfish

Hilgendorf's Saucord

Golden venus chub

Banded Irish lord

Japanese topeshark

Shaggy sea raven

Pennant coralfish

Spotty belly greenling

Fat greenling

Thorny seahorse

Great seahorse

Japanese seahorse

Shiho’s seahorse

Flat-faced seahorse

Sargassumfish

Redstripe tilefish

Convict grouper

Devil stinger

Stone flounder

Barred flagtail

Brassy chub

Longhorn cowfish

Roundbelly cowfish

Thornback cowfish

Half-smooth golden pufferfish

Japanese seabass

Blackfin seabass

Japanese lates

Hotoke loach

Longspine emperor

Chinese emperor

Spangled emperor

Yellowlip emperor

Japanese torrent catfish

Tripletail

Emperor red snapper

Two-spot red snapper

Checkered snapper

Blacktail snapper

Humpback red snapper

Bluestripe snapper

Spotstripe snapper

Russell's snapper

Star snapper

Longspine snipefish

Indo-Pacific tarpon

Redfin Velvetfish

Multicolorfin rainbowfish

Red dragonet

Carminodoris armata

Epizoanthus xenomorphoideus

Japanese mitten crab

Eugonatonotus chacei

Eunoe issunboushi

Ficus subintermedia

Gaetice depressus

Galaxy coral

Granular spindle

Halcampella maxima

Sea pineapple

Blue-lined octopus

Greater blue-ringed octopus

Harrovia albolineata

Helice tridens

Long tentacle plate coral

Heliometra glacialis

Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus

Henricia nipponica

Heptacarpus geniculatus

Hippasteria imperialis

White Thread Fish

Homoiodoris japonica

Homolomannia sibogae

Hyastenus diacanthus

Hydrichthella epigorgia

Harlequin shrimp

Smooth fan lobster

Northern pygmy squid

Isohalcurias carlgreni

Laetmonice japonica

Laetmogone maculata

Latreillia valida

Lauridromia dehaani

Purple Velvet Star

Leptomithrax edwardsii

Jewel Jelly

Mosaic boxer crab

Lyreidus tridentatus

Fire shrimp

East Asian Lined Shrimp

Paramaya spinigera

Wrinkled frog

Dragon moray

Smoothcheek sculpin

Short dragonfish

Pinktail triggerfish

Stripey

Slime flounder

Minous pusillus

Pinecone fish

Silver moony

Yellowfin goatfish

Daggertooth pike conger

Japanese eagle ray

Shadowfin soldierfish

Blotcheye soldierfish

Japanese sleeper ray

Spotted unicornfish

Sleek unicornfish

Orangespine unicornfish

Humpnose unicornfish

Bluespine unicornfish

Bignose unicornfish

Elegant firefish

Fire goby

Flame hawkfish

Black-and-gold chromis

Sammara squirrelfish

Ara

Red-toothed triggerfish

Black-finned Snake Eel

Blotched Snake Eel

Ophisurus macrorhynchos

Spotted knifejaw

Japanese wobbegong

Japanese soldierfish

Candystripe cardinalfish

Ishigaki cardinalfish

Sevenstriped cardinalfish

Redspot cardinalfish

Yellow boxfish

Twospot wrasse

Orange-spotted filefish

Yatabe blenny

Arc-eye hawkfish

Hairfinned Leatherjacket

Harlequin Sandsmelt

Grub fish

Pigmy sweeper

Chicken grunt

Unarmed dwarf monocle bream

Bicolor goatfish

Rosy Goatfish

Whitesaddle goatfish

Blackspot goatfish

Japanese Sweeper

Japanese armorhead

Barred mudskipper

Peristedion orientale

Blackbar filefish

Short-head Sabretooth Blenny

Dybowski's prickleback

Tidepool Gunnel

Phoxinus steindachneri

Orbicular batfish

Pinnate batfish

Longfin batfish

Starry flounder

Crescent sweetlips

Lesson's sweetlips

Oblique-banded Sweetlips

Painted sweetlips

Coral trout

Okhotsk atka mackerel

Blue ring angelfish

Semicircle angelfish

Sixbar angelfish

Blueface angelfish

Neon damsel

Lemon damsel

Nagasaki damsel

Moontail bullseye

Red bigeye

Scalpel sawtail

Japanese bigeye

Japanese sawshark

Bicolor anthias

Dispar anthias

Stocky anthias

Purple queen

Squarespot anthias

Randall's anthias

Red-belted anthias

Pseudoblennius cottoides

White trevally

Sixline wrasse

Pike Gudgeon

Red bambooleaf wrasse

Spotted bambooleaf wrasse

Topmouth gudgeon

Cocktail wrasse

Blackfin dartfish

Blue gudgeon

Zebra dartfish

Double-lined fusilier

Marr's fusilier

Dark-banded fusilier

Three-stripe fusilier

Serpentine Goby

Pterogobius virgo

Red lionfish

Black Stripe Gudgeon

Regal angelfish

Cobia

Indian mackerel

Luminous cardinalfish

Goldlined seabream

Brown guitarfish

Rhinogobius nagoyae

Ribbon eel

Weedy scorpionfish

Sharpbeak terapon

Cherry Anthias

Hairchin Goby

Jewelled blenny

Crown squirrelfish

Samurai squirrelfish

Redcoat

Sabre squirrelfish

Spiny squirrelfish

Blue-barred parrotfish

Scorpaena miostoma

Izu Scorpionfish

Western scorpionfish

Cheekspot scorpionfish

Weedy stingfish

Yellowfin scorpionfish

Izu catshark

Cloudy catshark

Sebastes cheni

Armorclad rockfish

Joyner stingfish

Oblong rockfish

Spotbelly rockfish

Korean rockfish

White-edged rockfish

Goldeye rockfish

Threestripe rockfish

False kelpfish

Asian sheepshead wrasse

Greater amberjack

Almaco jack

Blackbanded trevally

Hawkfish anthias

Monk Goby

Streamlined spinefoot

Mottled spinefoot

Masked spinefoot

Goldspotted spinefoot

Blotched foxface

Virgate rabbitfish

Japanese whiting

Robust ghost pipefish

Delicate ghost pipefish

Pajama cardinalfish

Orbiculate cardinalfish

Japanese angelshark

Japanese gregory

Striped jewfish

Black-ray goby

Wrasse

Sailfin snapper

Reef stonefish

Mandarinfish

Alligator pipefish

Seaweed pipefish

Red lizardfish

Red-eyed Puffer

Grass puffer

Panther puffer

Finepatterned puffer

Vermiculated Puffer

Spottyback Puffer

Slender Bitterling

Oily bitterling

Largescaled terapon

Jarbua terapon

Bluntheaded wrasse

Sixbar wrasse

Moon wrasse

Sunset wrasse

Black scraper

Smallspotted dart

Snubnose pompano

Goggle-eye Pipefish

Short-nosed tripodfish

Whitetip reef shark

Banded houndshark

Frog Goby

Japanese goatfish

Freckled goatfish

Whitetongue jack

Sepia stingray

Maiden goby

Blue-band glidergoby

Yellow-edged lyretail

Barfin flounder

Spotted halibut

Twotone tang

Sailfin tang

Threadfin cardinalfish

Kisslip cuttlefish

Broadclub cuttlefish

Paintpot cuttlefish

Starry night octopus

Kobi cuttlefish

Enoplolambrus validus

Venus' flower basket

Mimka Bobtail Squid

Gonionida andamanica

Macrophiothrix nereidina

Common Moon Crab

Medaeops granulosus

Mediaster brachiatus

Melibe japonica

Money cowry

Montipora coral

Troschel's murex

Mursia danigoi

Mursia trispinosa

Myra fugax

Myriopathes japonica

Naxioides robillardi

Crested Nembrotha

Doflein's jellyfish

Neoferdina japonica

Spotted porcelain crab

Amadako Octopus

Japanese Pygmy Octopus

Peacock mantis shrimp

Okenia hiroi

Oncopagurus monstrosus

Green brittle star

Ophiochiton fastigatus

Superb brittle star

Ophiomaza cacaotica

Ophiopholis brachyactis

Pachycerianthus magnus

Serpent Coral

Paguritta gracilipes

Pagurodofleinia doederleini

Pagurus conformis

Scalloped spiny lobster

Ornate spiny lobster

Paradorippe granulata

Paralepas quadrata

Porcupine Crab

Parastichopus nigripunctatus

Paromola japonica

Paromola macrochira

Japanese mitten lobster

Giant tiger prawn

Blunt Arm Sea Star

Petalifera punctulata

Phalacrocidaris japonica

Elegant Phyllidia

Physophyllia ayleni

Picrocerus armatus

Common hairy crab

Platepistoma anaglyptum

Platymaia alcocki

Pleonobopyrus kumanonadensis

Plocamopherus imperialis

Bracket Coral

Long-eyed swimming crab

Polyorchis karafutoensis

Pomatocheles jeffreysii

Porcellanella triloba

Porcellanopagurus japonicus

Prionechinus forbesianus

Prionocidaris baculosa

Proboscidactyla flavicirrata

Propagurus miyakei

Propagurus obtusifrons

Chocolate chip sea star

Psolus squamatus

Pycnogonum tenue

Quadrella boopsis

Magnificent sea anemone

Spanner crab

Rhombonemertes rublinea

Rocinela oculata

Sandalia triticea

Sarcophyton ehrenbergi

Scaeurgus patagiatus

Scalpellum stearnsi

Mud crab

Aesop Slipper Lobster

Blunt slipper lobster

Pugettia intermedia

Japanese spineless cuttlefish

Orange Sun Star

Christmas tree worm

Spirocodon saltatrix

Banded coral shrimp

Haddon's carpet anemone

Stylobates calcifer

Sympagurus dofleini

Synalpheus demani

Snake sea cucumber

Temnopleurus toreumaticus

Tempura sea anemone

Japanese wonder shell

Pacific pincer lobster

Flower urchin

Open brain coral

Trichia dromiaeformis

Collector urchin

Tropiometra afra

Tunepugettia sagamiensis

Vayssierea felis

Pallid carrier shell

Zebra crab
