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Japan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
1446
Threatened
53
CR + EN + VU
Population
126,476,461
Area
377,975 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 15
Endangered 18
Vulnerable 20
Near Threatened 37
Least Concern 404
Data Deficient 4
Not Evaluated 861
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1017
Animalia 427
Protozoa 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Japan

Redbanded thrip

Selenothrips rubrocinctus

Not Evaluated

Red-billed Leiothrix

Leiothrix lutea

Least Concern

Red birch midget

Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella

Least Concern

Red birch slender

Caloptilia betulicola

Least Concern

Red-breasted Parakeet

Psittacula alexandri

Near Threatened

Red brome

Bromus rubens

Not Evaluated

Red Buffalo-bur

Solanum sisymbriifolium

Least Concern

Red Campion

Silene dioica

Least Concern

Red-crested Cardinal

Paroaria coronata

Least Concern

Red flour beetle

Tribolium castaneum

Least Concern

Redflower ragleaf

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Not Evaluated

Redleaf rose

Rosa glauca

Not Evaluated

Redlegged ham beetle

Necrobia rufipes

Least Concern

Redroot amaranth

Amaranthus retroflexus

Not Evaluated

Red-Seeded Dandelion

Taraxacum erythrospermum

Not Evaluated

Redshouldered ham beetle

Necrobia ruficollis

Endangered

red spiderling

Boerhavia diffusa

Least Concern

Red Swamp Crayfish

Procambarus clarkii

Not Evaluated

Redvein dock

Rumex sanguineus

Critically Endangered

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Pycnonotus jocosus

Least Concern

Reedbed Plume

Emmelina argoteles

Not Evaluated

reed rhapis

Rhapis humilis

Not Evaluated

Reeves's muntjac

Muntiacus reevesi

Not Evaluated

Rescuegrass

Bromus catharticus

Not Evaluated

rhesus monkey

Macaca mulatta

Least Concern

Rhodes grass

Chloris gayana

Not Evaluated

Rice moth

Corcyra cephalonica

Not Evaluated

Rice-paper plant

Tetrapanax papyrifer

Least Concern

Richweed

Ageratina altissima

Not Evaluated

Ripgut Brome

Bromus rigidus

Not Evaluated

River sheoak

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Least Concern

Roadside flatsedge

Cyperus sphacelatus

Least Concern

Roadside pepperweed

Lepidium ruderale

Least Concern

Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

Least Concern

Rockweed

Pilea microphylla

Not Evaluated

Roman Chamomile

Chamaemelum nobile

Not Evaluated

Root-eating beetle

Monotoma picipes

Least Concern

Rootless Duckweed

Wolffia arrhiza

Endangered

Rosarypea

Abrus precatorius

Least Concern

Rose Clover

Trifolium hirtum

Not Evaluated

rose evening-primrose

Oenothera rosea

Not Evaluated

Rose glorybower

Clerodendrum bungei

Least Concern

rose-grass aphid

Metopolophium dirhodum

Not Evaluated

rose leafhopper

Edwardsiana rosae

Least Concern

Rose natal grass

Melinis repens

Not Evaluated

Rose Plume

Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla

Least Concern

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Psittacula krameri

Not Evaluated

rosy predator snail

Euglandina rosea

Not Evaluated

Rougeplant

Rivina humilis

Least Concern

Rough Bluegrass

Poa trivialis

Least Concern

rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

Galium tricornutum

Critically Endangered

Rough-Fruit Amaranth

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Least Concern

Rough mexican clover

Richardia scabra

Not Evaluated

Royal midget

Phyllonorycter pastorella

Least Concern

Russian pigweed

Axyris amaranthoides

Not Evaluated

Rye brome

Bromus secalinus

Least Concern

Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius

Not Evaluated

Sakishima Rice Frog

Fejervarya sakishimensis

Least Concern

Sallow midget

Phyllonorycter hilarella

Least Concern

Sand Bittercress

Cardamine parviflora

Vulnerable

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