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Pages in category "Extinct animals of Japan" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This list is of prehistoric mammals known from the fossil record of the Japanese archipelago.For extant mammals from the area, see List of mammals of Japan (which includes the recently extinct species on the IUCN Red List [1] and its domestic counterpart the Ministry of the Environment Red List [2]).
This is a list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [a] and continues to the present day. [1] This list includes the Asian continent and its surrounding islands, including Cyprus.
Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai), one of 110 [1] taxa classed as Extinct [2] on the 2020 Japanese Red List (Hokkaido University Museum). The Japanese Red List (レッドリスト, reddo risuto) is the Japanese domestic counterpart to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Japanese wolf mounted in Ueno Zoo, Japan (Wakayama University possession) In the Shinto belief, the ōkami ("wolf") is regarded as a messenger of the kami spirits and also offers protection against crop raiders such as the wild boar and deer. Wild animals were associated with the mountain spirit Yama-no-kami. The mountains of Japan, seen as a ...
Japanese commercial harvest of Japanese sea lions ended in the 1940s when the species became virtually extinct. [18] In total, Japanese trawlers harvested as many as 16,500 sea lions, enough to cause their extinction. Submarine warfare during World War II is also believed to have contributed to their habitat destruction. [19] [20] The last ...
Skeleton of Japanese river otter. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. The Japanese otter (Japanese: ニホンカワウソ(日本川獺, Hepburn: Nihon-kawauso) (Lutra nippon) or Japanese river otter is an extinct species of otter formerly widespread in Japan. [1] [2] Dating back to the 1880s, it was once even seen in ...
The Ezō wolf [5] [6] [7] or Hokkaidō wolf [6] (Canis lupus hattai Kishida, 1931) [8] [9] is an extinct [10] subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus). In 1890, the skulls of Japanese wolves (Canis lupus hodophilax) were compared with those of wolves from Hokkaido in the British Museum. The specimens were noticeably different and explained to ...