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The common name in English is mamushi, [3] or Japanese mamushi. [4] The common name in Japanese is mamushi (蝮). In Korea, it is known as Korean: 살무사; RR: salmusa or Korean: 살모사; RR: salmosa. In China, it is known as the Qichun snake (七寸子) or soil snake/viper (土巴蛇、土蝮蛇、土夫蛇、土公蛇).
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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 ...
Japanese rat snake Japanese rat snakes crawls into a pipe. The Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora) is a medium-sized colubrid snake found throughout the Japanese archipelago (except the far South West) as well as on the Russian-administered Kunashir Island. [1] In Japanese it is known as the aodaishō [2] or "blue general". It is non-venomous.
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.
It typically grows to a length of 1-1.5 m (40–60 in). The snake has a yellow or light brown ground color, and gets its scientific and common names from the four black lengthwise stripes sported by most individuals of the species. All-black variants exist; these are known in Japan as karasu-hebi (crow snakes).
The Oriental odd-tooth snake (Lycodon orientalis), sometimes called the Japanese odd-tooth snake, is a species endemic to Japan, belonging to the family Colubridae. It is found in Hokkaido , Honshu , Shikoku , Kyushu , the Goto Islands , Iki Island , Izu Ōshima , the Oki Islands , Sado Island , Tanegashima , and Yakushima .
It is a small snake, growing to a maximum total length of 44 cm (17 + 1 ⁄ 4 in), with a tail 10 cm (3 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) long. [citation needed] Dorsally it is olive or reddish brown, with small blackish spots. Some specimens may have a dark olive or blackish vertebral stripe. The upper labials are yellow, with black sutures.