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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]
Japanese amberjack; Japanese angelfish; Japanese angelshark; Japanese barracuda; Japanese catshark; Japanese dragonet; Japanese eel; Japanese fluvial sculpin; Japanese gissu; Japanese jack mackerel; Japanese pugnose grenadier; Japanese roughshark; Japanese sawshark; Japanese sea bass; Japanese seahorse; Japanese silver-biddy; Japanese sleeper ...
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1.4 Fish. 1.5 Reptiles. 1.6 Amphibians. 1.7 Insects and arachnids. 1.8 Molluscs. 2 See also. ... La Touche's free-tailed bat; Large Japanese field mouse; Lesser great ...
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 Japanese sea bass occurs on inshore rocky reefs where there is a current. The juveniles have been recorded ascending rivers and then return as adults to sea to spawn. It is a protandrous hermaphrodite in which the fish reach sexual maturity as males at around 2 years old and change into females when they are older. [ 5 ]
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
Shishamo in Hokkaido. The fish is said to resemble a willow leaf, and its Japanese name reflects this; shishamo, is derived from the Ainu name for the same fish, susam, which is supposed to be derived from a compound of Ainu susu "willow" + ham "leaf", hence its name in Chinese characters (柳葉魚 jukujikun, where the characters have no phonetic relation to the word).