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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

sandhills amaranth

Amaranthus arenicola

Not Evaluated

Santa maria feverfew

Parthenium hysterophorus

Not Evaluated

Sap beetle

Carpophilus marginellus

Least Concern

Sawtoothed grain beetle

Oryzaephilus surinamensis

Not Evaluated

Scaly-breasted Munia

Lonchura punctulata

Least Concern

Scarlet Sage

Salvia splendens

Not Evaluated

Scentless false mayweed

Tripleurospermum inodorum

Least Concern

scoparia-weed

Scoparia dulcis

Least Concern

Sea fig

Carpobrotus chilensis

Not Evaluated

Seagrape

Coccoloba uvifera

Least Concern

Sea Purslane

Sesuvium portulacastrum

Least Concern

Seashore vervain

Verbena litoralis

Least Concern

Seaside barley

Hordeum marinum

Extinct

Seaside Koniga

Lobularia maritima

Not Evaluated

Sea-wormwood Leafhopper

Chlorita viridula

Least Concern

Seneca Root

Polygala senega

Not Evaluated

Senegal teaplant

Gymnocoronis spilanthoides

Not Evaluated

sensitive joint-vetch

Aeschynomene virginica

Extinct

Septicweed

Senna occidentalis

Least Concern

Serradella

Ornithopus sativus

Not Evaluated

Sesbania Pea

Sesbania bispinosa

Least Concern

Sessile joyweed

Alternanthera sessilis

Least Concern

Shakeshake

Crotalaria incana

Least Concern

sharped-leaved fluellen

Kickxia elatine

Least Concern

Sharp-leaf Ground-cherry

Physalis acutifolia

Not Evaluated

Shepherd's-needle

Scandix pecten-veneris

Critically Endangered

Shepherd's purse

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Not Evaluated

Shortpod mustard

Hirschfeldia incana

Not Evaluated

Short-tailed Albatross

Phoebastria albatrus

Vulnerable

Showy baby's-breath

Gypsophila elegans

Not Evaluated

Siamese grain beetle

Lophocateres pusillus

Not Evaluated

Siberian chipmunk

Tamias sibiricus

Not Evaluated

Siberian Crane'S-Bill

Geranium sibiricum

Not Evaluated

Siberian weasel

Mustela sibirica

Least Concern

Sickle Medick

Medicago falcata

Least Concern

Sickle senna

Senna tora

Not Evaluated

sieversian wormwood

Artemisia sieversiana

Not Evaluated

sika deer

Cervus nippon

Not Evaluated

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharinum

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf nightshade

Solanum elaeagnifolium

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf Sunflower

Helianthus argophyllus

Least Concern

Silver wattle

Acacia dealbata

Least Concern

silver y

Autographa gamma

Least Concern

Silveus' Lovegrass

Eragrostis silveana

Least Concern

Sixweeks threeawn

Aristida adscensionis

Not Evaluated

Slender amaranth

Amaranthus viridis

Not Evaluated

Slender centaury

Centaurium tenuiflorum

Not Evaluated

Slender Cottonweed

Froelichia gracilis

Not Evaluated

Slender false garlic

Nothoscordum gracile

Not Evaluated

Slender oat

Avena barbata

Not Evaluated

slender thistle

Carduus tenuiflorus

Near Threatened

slim-bristle sandbur

Cenchrus brownii

Not Evaluated

Small Black Ant

Lasius niger

Least Concern

Smalleyed flour beetle

Palorus ratzeburgi

Not Evaluated

Small Golden-rod Plume

Hellinsia osteodactylus

Least Concern

Small-leaf spiderwort

Tradescantia fluminensis

Not Evaluated

Small Nightshade

Solanum triflorum

Not Evaluated

small scabious

Scabiosa columbaria

Endangered

smoother rupture-wort

Herniaria glabra

Least Concern

Smooth hawksbeard

Crepis capillaris

Least Concern

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