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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 ...
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 fish may be a Tanchō Shōwa, Tanchō Sanke, or even Tanchō Goshiki. It is named for the Japanese red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), which also has a red spot on its head. Chagoi (茶鯉), "tea-colored", this koi can range in color from pale olive-drab green or brown to copper or bronze and more recently, darker, subdued orange shades ...
The Japanese amberjack or yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata, is a species of jack fish in the family Carangidae, native to the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is known as shiyu ( 鰤魚 ) in China , bang'eo ( 방어 ) in Korea , and buri ( 鰤 ) or hamachi ( 魬 ) in Japan .
Hypomesus nipponensis (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: wakasagi [2]) is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. [1] It has been introduced in other locations, including the San Francisco Delta of the United States.
The Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) is a schooling fish of the family Engraulidae. It is common in the Pacific Ocean south from the Sea of Okhotsk, widespread in the Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea, and near the coasts of Japan. They live up to 2–3 years, similar to European anchovy. They spawn from Taiwan to southern ...
The Japanese angelfish was first formally described in 1918 by the Japanese ichthyologist Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974) with the type locality given as Tanabe in the Wakayama Prefecture of Japan. [5] The specific name means “interrupted” and was not explained but may refer to the broken dusky bars on the head.