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The Black kokanee or Kunimasu, once thought to be extinct, is now classed as extinct in the wild. This list of freshwater fish recorded in Japan is primarily based on the IUCN Red List, which, for fish found in inland waters, details the conservation status of some two hundred and sixty-one species, seventy-three of them endemic. [1]
S. Saddle carpetshark; Saddleback clownfish; Sakhalin sturgeon; Salangichthys; Salmon shark; Salvelinus leucomaenis; Sand tiger shark; Sebastes cheni; Sebastes schlegelii
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Japanese rice fish; Japanese white crucian ...
Gyotaku (魚拓, from gyo "fish" + taku "stone impression", fish print(ing)) is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing , where ink is applied to a fish which is then pressed onto paper, was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art ...
The Japanese taimen (Hucho perryi) is the largest fish to enter freshwater in Japan and may reach sizes of up to 2 meters in length. The Japanese taimen is a critically endangered species including the Japanese populations which are restricted to the rivers and surrounding ocean of Hokkaido. Also present is the Japanese dace (Tribolodon ...
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.
The Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes), also known as the medaka, [2] is a member of genus Oryzias , the only genus in the subfamily Oryziinae. This small (up to about 3.6 cm or 1.4 in) native of Japan is a denizen of rice paddies , marshes, ponds, slow-moving streams and tide pools .
The masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou), also known as masu (Japanese: マス, lit. 'salmon trout') or cherry trout (桜鱒, サクラマス, sakura masu) in Japan, [1] [2] is a species of salmonid belonging to the genus Oncorhynchus, found in the North Pacific along Northeast/East Asian coasts from the Russian Far East (Primorsky, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) to south through ...