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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]).
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 ...
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.
This is a list of mammal species recorded in Japan (excluding domesticated and captive populations). Of the 172 [1] species of mammal found—112 native terrestrial mammals (those that are endemic are identified below; this number includes 37 species of bat), 19 introduced species, 40 species of Cetacea, and the dugong—161 are listed for the Japan region on the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
The shy Australian animals died after only a century of European settlement. Despite the world's last captive thylacine dying in 1936, the secretive animal wasn't declared extinct until 1986.
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 ...