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Japan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
1446
Threatened
45
CR + EN + VU
Population
126.476.461
Area
377.975 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 13
Endangered 18
Vulnerable 14
Near Threatened 27
Least Concern 304
Data Deficient 2
Not Evaluated 610
Extinct 18

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1017
Animalia 427
Protozoa 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Japan

Buff tailed bumblebee

Bombus terrestris

Least Concern

Jenkins' spire shell

Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Not Evaluated

Sallow midget

Phyllonorycter hilarella

Least Concern

Gold birch midget

Phyllonorycter cavella

Least Concern

Mediterranean flour moth

Ephestia kuehniella

Least Concern

Blood Ragweed

Ambrosia trifida

Not Evaluated

White-Triangle Slender

Caloptilia stigmatella

Least Concern

Glabrous Catsear

Hypochaeris glabra

Critically Endangered

Red birch slender

Caloptilia betulicola

Least Concern

Fur carpet beetle

Attagenus pellio

Least Concern

Citrus leafminer

Phyllocnistis citrella

Not Evaluated

Boar Thistle

Cirsium arvense

Least Concern

Sneezeweed

Achillea ptarmica

Least Concern

Fernleaf yarrow

Achillea filipendulina

Not Evaluated

aurochs

Bos taurus

Not Evaluated

Woodland ragwort

Senecio sylvaticus

Least Concern

South african ragwort

Senecio inaequidens

Not Evaluated

Sticky ragwort

Senecio viscosus

Least Concern

Leopard's Bane

Arnica montana

Vulnerable

Black Knapweed

Centaurea nigra

Not Evaluated

Brown Knapweed

Centaurea jacea

Least Concern

American White Moth

Hyphantria cunea

Not Evaluated

Smooth hawksbeard

Crepis capillaris

Least Concern

Scentless false mayweed

Tripleurospermum inodorum

Least Concern

Bristly Hawk'S-Beard

Crepis setosa

Not Evaluated

two-banded fungus beetle

Alphitophagus bifasciatus

Least Concern

Larder beetle

Dermestes lardarius

Least Concern

Common brassbuttons

Cotula coronopifolia

Not Evaluated

Goat's-beard

Tragopogon pratensis

Least Concern

Azalea leafminer

Caloptilia azaleella

Not Evaluated

Light-vented Bulbul

Pycnonotus sinensis

Least Concern

Narrowleaf hawksbeard

Crepis tectorum

Near Threatened

Curled Thistle

Carduus crispus

Least Concern

minute gem

Hawaiia minuscula

Not Evaluated

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Not Evaluated

domestic goat

Capra hircus

Not Evaluated

Jointed goatgrass

Aegilops cylindrica

Not Evaluated

Violet checkered beetle

Necrobia violacea

Least Concern

Variousleaf fescue

Festuca heterophylla

Not Evaluated

Creeping Fescue

Festuca rubra

Least Concern

Yellow potato cyst nematode

Globodera rostochiensis

Not Evaluated

Little house fly

Fannia canicularis

Not Evaluated

black rat

Rattus rattus

Extinct

Loose Silky-bent

Apera spica-venti

Least Concern

spotted alfalfa aphid

Therioaphis trifolii

Not Evaluated

Black-grass

Alopecurus myosuroides

Least Concern

ivy aphid

Aphis hederae

Not Evaluated

Small Black Ant

Lasius niger

Least Concern

Creeping bentgrass

Agrostis stolonifera

Least Concern

Black Bent

Agrostis gigantea

Least Concern

Clown beetle

Carcinops pumilio

Least Concern

Velvet Bent

Agrostis canina

Least Concern

Small Golden-rod Plume

Hellinsia osteodactylus

Least Concern

Fire ant

Solenopsis geminata

Not Evaluated

bed bug

Cimex lectularius

Least Concern

Seaside barley

Hordeum marinum

Extinct

Hemp-agrimony Plume

Adaina microdactyla

Vulnerable

Field Brome

Bromus arvensis

Near Threatened

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Confused flour beetle

Tribolium confusum

Least Concern

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