Japanese Red List

As of the 2020 edition, thirteen taxa are used for classification purposes by the Ministry of the Environment: • Fauna • • • • • • • • • Flora • • • • • Five further taxa are used for the Marine Life Red List: and are protected as a Natural Monument under the 1950 Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties ==Statistics==

Extinct taxa • Mammals: Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai), Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax), Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra nippon), Hokkaido river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi), Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis) , (Rhinolophus pumilus miyakonis), Bonin pipistrelle (Pipistrellus sturdeei) • Birds: Crested shelduck (Tadorna cristata) , Ryukyu wood pigeon (Columba jouyi) , Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor) , Bonin nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus crassirostris) , Iwo Jima rail (Porzana cinerea brevipes) , Daito buzzard (Buteo buteo oshiroi), Ryukyu kingfisher (Todiramphus miyakoensis), Tristram's woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis richardsi), Izu Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus furuitii), Daito varied tit, (Poecile varius orii), Mukojima white-eye (Apalopteron familiare familiare), Daito wren (Troglodytes troglodytes orii), Bonin thrush (Cichlopasser terrestris) , Southern Ryukyu robin (Luscinia komadori subrufus), Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris) • Brackish and Freshwater Fish: Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris), Gnathopogon elongatus suwae, Amur stickleback (Pungitius kaibarae) • Insects: Ishikawatrechus intermedius, Rakantrechus elegans, Prodaticus satoi [ja], Macroplea japana • Molluscs: Ogasawarana chichijimana , Ogasawarana habei , Ogasawarana rex , Assiminea sp. D, Hirasea diplomphalus latispira, Hirasea eutheca , Hirasea goniobasis , Hirasea hypolia , Hirasea major , Hirasea nesiotica liobasis, Hirasea planulata biconcava, Hirasea planulata planulata, Hirasea profundispira , Hirasea sinuosa , Hirasiella clara , Lamprocystis hahajimana pachychilus, Trochochlamys ogasawarana , Vitrinula chichijimana , Vitrinula hahajimana • Other Invertebrates: Compressalges nipponiae • Vascular Plants: Elatostema lineolatum var. majus, Ranunculus gmelinii, Rubus hatsushimae, Flemingia strobilifera, Lespedeza hisauchii, Euphrasia insignis insignis var. omiensis, Euphrasia insignis insignis var. pubigera, Euphrasia multifolia var. kirisimana, Cirsium toyoshimae, Aletris makiyataroi, Burmannia coelestris, Thismia tuberculata, Eriocaulon cauliferum, Cyperus diaphanus, Cyperus procerus, Fimbristylis leptoclada var. takamineana, Fimbristylis pauciflora, Acanthephippium striatum • Algae: Chara fibrosa var. brevibracteata, Chara globularis var. hakonensis, Nitella minispora, Porphyra angusta • Lichens: Erioderma tomentosum, Heterodermia angustiloba, Heterodermia leucomelos, Siphula ceratites • Fungi: Agaricus hahashimensis, Albatrellus cantharellus, Camarophyllus microbicolor, Chlorophyllum agaricoides, Circulocolumella hahashimensis, Clitocybe castaneofloccosa, Collybia matris, Coprinus boninensis, Cyathus boninensis, Ganoderma colossus, Gymnopilus noviholocirrhus, Hygrocybe macrospora, Hygrocybe miniatostriata, Lactarius ogasawarashimensis, Lentinus lamelliporus, Lepiota boninensis, Leptoglossum boninense, Lycoperdon henningsii, Pleurotus cyatheae, Pluteus daidoi, Pluteus horridilamellus, Psathyrella boninensis, Pyrrhoglossum subpurpureum, Rhodophyllus brunneolus, Russula boninensis • Coral: Merulina coral (Boninastrea boninensis) ==Prefectural Red Lists==

Localized Red Lists and Red Data are also prepared and published by a number of Prefectural Governments, including those of Hokkaidō and Okinawa. ==See also==