This list of amphibians recorded in Japan is primarily based on the IUCN Red List , which details the conservation status of some ninety-four species .[1] Of these, four are assessed as critically endangered (the endemic Amakusa salamander, Mikawa salamander, Tosashimizu salamander, and Tsukuba clawed salamander), twenty-seven as endangered , fourteen as vulnerable , eleven as near threatened , and thirty-eight as of least concern .[1]
According to statistics accompanying the 2020 Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MoE) Red List , ninety-one species and subspecies are to be found, but the conservation status of only sixty-seven is detailed.[2] [3] Of these, five taxa are critically endangered from a national perspective, twenty are endangered, twenty-two vulnerable, nineteen near threatened, and one data deficient .[2] [3]
As of January 2023, for their protection, forty-one species have been designated National Endangered Species by Cabinet Order in accordance with the 1992 Act on Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora .[4]
Japanese tree frog , Dryophytes japonicus Holst's frog , Babina holsti Amami tip-nosed frog , Odorrana amamiensis Daruma pond frog , Pelophylax porosus Ishikawa's frog , Rana ishikawae Ryukyu kajika frog , Buergeria japonica Forest green tree frog , Zhangixalus arboreus Family: Bufonidae
Family: Dicroglossidae
Family: Hylidae
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Microhyla
Okinawa narrow-mouthed toad [ja ] , Microhyla okinavensis LC IUCN (endemic)
Yaeyama narrow-mouthed toad, Microhyla kuramotoi LC IUCN (endemic)
Family: Pipidae
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Babina
Genus: Glandirana
Genus: Lithobates
Genus: Nidirana
Genus: Odorrana
Genus: Pelophylax
Genus: Rana
Dwarf Tago's brown frog, Rana kyoto (endemic)
Dybowski's frog , Rana dybowskii LC IUCN
Goto Tago's brown frog, Rana matsuoi (endemic)
Ezo brown frog , Rana pirica LC IUCN
Japanese brown frog , Rana japonica LC IUCN (endemic)
Montane brown frog , Rana ornativentris LC IUCN (endemic)
Neba Tago's brown frog [ja ] , Rana neba LC IUCN (endemic)
Oki Tago's brown frog, Rana okiensis (MoE: NT, as R. tagoi okiensis ) (endemic)
Okinawa frog [fr ] , Rana ulma VU IUCN (endemic)
Ryukyu brown frog , Rana kobai NT IUCN (endemic)
Stream brown frog , Rana sakuraii LC IUCN (endemic)
Tago's brown frog , Rana tagoi LC IUCN (endemic)
Tsushima brown frog , Rana tsushimensis NT IUCN (endemic)
Yakushima brown frog, Rana yakushimensis (MoE: NT, as R. tagoi yakushimensis ) (endemic)
Family: Rhacophoridae
Japanese giant salamander , Andrias japonicus Abe's salamander , Hynobius abei Japanese fire belly newt , Cynops pyrrhogaster Sword-tail newt , Cynops ensicauda Family: Cryptobranchidae
Family: Hynobiidae
Genus: Hynobius
Abe's salamander , Hynobius abei EN IUCN (endemic) (MoE: CR)
Abu salamander, Hynobius abuensis EN IUCN (endemic)
Aki salamander, Hynobius akiensis EN IUCN (endemic)
Amakusa salamander [fr ] , Hynobius amakusaensis CR IUCN (endemic) (MoE: CR)
Chikushi-buchi salamander, Hynobius oyamai VU IUCN (endemic)
Chūgoku-buchi salamander, Hynobius sematonotos VU IUCN (endemic)
Ezo salamander , Hynobius retardatus LC IUCN (endemic) (MoE: DD)
Geiyo salamander, Hynobius geiyoensis (endemic)
Blotched salamander , Hynobius naevius EN IUCN (endemic)
Hakuba salamander , Hynobius hidamontanus EN IUCN (endemic)
Hida salamander , Hynobius kimurae LC IUCN (endemic)
Highland salamander, Hynobius utsunomiyaorum VU IUCN (endemic)
Hokuriku salamander , Hynobius takedai EN IUCN (endemic)
Hynobius oni (endemic)
Hynobius tagoi (endemic)
Ishizuchi salamander [ja ] , Hynobius hirosei NT IUCN (endemic)
Iwaki salamander, Hynobius sengokui (endemic)
Iwami salamander, Hynobius iwami EN IUCN (endemic)
Iyoshima salamander, Hynobius kuishiensis VU IUCN (endemic)
Izumo salamander, Hynobius kunibiki (endemic)
Japanese black salamander , Hynobius nigrescens LC IUCN (endemic)
Japanese rift salamander [pt ] , Hynobius fossigenus VU IUCN (endemic)
Kato's salamander , Hynobius katoi EN IUCN (endemic)
Mahoroba salamander, Hynobius guttatus NT IUCN (endemic)
Mikawa salamander [ja ] , Hynobius mikawaensis CR IUCN (endemic) (MoE: CR)
Mitsjama salamander , Hynobius nebulosus LC IUCN (endemic)
Ōdaigahara salamander , Hynobius boulengeri EN IUCN (endemic)
Ōita salamander , Hynobius dunni VU IUCN (endemic)
Oki salamander , Hynobius okiensis EN IUCN (endemic)
Ōsumi salamander [fr ] , Hynobius osumiensis EN IUCN (endemic)
San'in salamander, Hynobius setoi EN IUCN (endemic)
Setouchi salamander, Hynobius setouchi NT IUCN (endemic)
Smaller blotched salamander, Hynobius stejnegeri NT IUCN (endemic)
Sobo salamander [fr ] , Hynobius shinichisatoi EN IUCN (endemic)
Stejneger's oriental salamander , Hynobius ikioi VU IUCN (endemic)
Sumida salamander, Hynobius sumidai (endemic)
Tōhoku salamander , Hynobius lichenatus LC IUCN (endemic)
Tokyo salamander , Hynobius tokyoensis VU IUCN (endemic)
Tosashimizu salamander, Hynobius tosashimizuensis CR IUCN (endemic) (MoE: CR)
Tsurugi salamander, Hynobius tsurugiensis EN IUCN (endemic)
Tsushima salamander , Hynobius tsuensis NT IUCN (endemic)
Yamaguchi salamander, Hynobius bakan EN IUCN (endemic)
Yamato salamander, Hynobius vandenburghi VU IUCN (endemic)
Genus: Onychodactylus
Bandai clawed salamander [fr ] , Onychodactylus intermedius NT IUCN (endemic)
Fireback clawed salamander [ja ] , Onychodactylus pyrrhonotus (endemic)
Japanese clawed salamander , Onychodactylus japonicus LC IUCN (endemic)
Shikoku clawed salamander [fr ] , Onychodactylus kinneburi VU IUCN (endemic)
Tadami clawed salamander , Onychodactylus fuscus EN IUCN (endemic)
Tōhoku clawed salamander [fr ] , Onychodactylus nipponoborealis LC IUCN (endemic)
Tsukuba clawed salamander [ja ] , Onychodactylus tsukubaensis CR IUCN (endemic) (MoE: CR)
Genus: Salamandrella
Family: Salamandridae
The Japanese names for the taxa found in Japan have been collated and published by the Herpetological Society of Japan [ja ] .[6]