List of invasive species in Japan
Invasive species include those introduced from overseas, such as the red-eared slider, as well as plants or animals introduced outside their native range within Japan (Siberian chipmunk, etc.).[1] This is a non-exhaustive list, largely based on data from the National Institute of Environmental Studies.[2]
Animal species
Mammals
- Bos taurus (cattle) - Problematic in Tokara Islands[3]
- Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas's squirrel) - Invasive in various areas in Japan.[4][5]
- Callosciurus finlaysonii (Finlayson's squirrel) - Invasive in Shizuoka prefecture.[6]
- Canis familiaris (dog)[7]
- Capra aegagrus (feral goat)[8]
- Erinaceus amurensis (Amur hedgehog)[9]
- Eutamias sibiricus (Siberian chipmunk) - Native to Hokkaido, invasive in Honshu.[10][11]
- Felis catus (feral cat)[12]
- Macaca cyclopis (Formosan rock macaque)[13]
- Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque)[14]
- Martes melampus (Japanese marten) Honshu native, invasive in Hokkaido and Sado Island[15]
- Muntiacus reevesi (Reeves's muntjac)[16]
- Mus musculus (house mouse) - Nationwide.[17]
- Mustela itatsi (Japanese weasel) Honshu native, invasive in Hokkaido[18]
- Mustela sibirica (Siberian weasel)[19]
- Myocastor coypus (coypu, nutria) - Western Japan.[20][21]
- Neogale vison (American mink)[22]
- Nyctereutes procyonoides (raccoon dog)[23]
- Ondatra zibethicus (muskrat) - Tokyo, Chiba and Saitama.[24]
- Oryctolagus cuniculus (European rabbit)[25]
- Paguma larvata (masked palm civet)[26]
- Procyon lotor (raccoon)[27]
- Rattus norvegicus (brown rat) - Invasive on outlying islands.[28]
- Rattus rattus (black rat) - Invasive in almost all of Japan.[29]
- Sus scrofa (wild boar) on Ototojima and Okinoerabu islands[30]
- Urva auropunctata (small Indian mongoose) - Okinawa and Kagoshima.[31][32]
Reptiles
- Anolis carolinensis (Carolina anole)[33]
- Chelydra serpentina (common snapping turtle)[34]
- Cuora flavomarginata (Chinese box turtle)[35]
- Gekko hokouensis (Hokou gecko) native to outlying islands, invasive on mainland[36]
- Hemidactylus frenatus (common house gecko)[37]
- Lepidodactylus lugubris (mourning gecko)[38]
- Orthriophis taeniurus (beauty rat snake)[39]
- Pelodiscus sinensis (Chinese softshell turtle)[40]
- Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider)[41]
- Protobothrops elegans (elegant pitviper)[42]
- Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (brown spotted pit viper)[43]
- Diploderma swinhonis (tree lizard)
Birds
- Columba livia (feral pigeon)[44]
- Leiothrix lutea (red-billed leiothrix)[45]
- Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl)[46]
- Phasianus colchicus (common pheasant)[47]
- Pycnonotus sinensis (light-vented bulbul)[48]
Fish
- Acheilognathus cyanostigma (striped bitterling)[49]
- Acheilognathus macropterus[50]
- Acheilognathus rhombeus (kanehira)[51]
- Acheilognathus typus (zenitanago)[52]
- Channa argus (northern snakehead)[53]
- Clarias batrachus (walking catfish)[54]
- Ctenopharyngodon idella (grass carp)[55]
- Cyprinus carpio (common carp)[56]
- Gambusia affinis (mosquitofish)[57]
- Gambusia holbrooki (eastern mosquitofish)[58]
- Ictalurus punctatus (channel catfish)[59]
- Lepomis macrochirus (bluegill)[60]
- Micropterus dolomieu (smallmouth bass)[61]
- Micropterus salmoides (largemouth bass)[62]
- Monopterus albus (Asian swamp eel)[63]
- Oncorhynchus mykiss (rainbow trout)[64]
- Rhodeus ocellatus (rosy bitterling)[65]
- Salmo trutta (brown trout)[66]
- Silurus asotus (Amur catfish)[67]
- Tridentiger brevispinis (numachichibu)[68]
Invertebrates
- Aculops lycopersici (tomato russet mite)[69]
- Agriosphodrus dohrni[70]
- Ambigolimax valentianus (threeband gardenslug)[71]
- Amphibalanus amphitrite (striped barnacle)[72]
- Amphibalanus improvisus (bay barnacle)[73]
- Anoplolepis gracilipes (yellow crazy ant)[74]
- Aromia bungii (red-necked longhorn)[75]
- Bemisia tabaci (silverleaf whitefly)[76]
- Blattella germanica (German cockroach)[77]
- Bombus terrestris (buff-tailed bumblebee)[78]
- Bugula neritina (brown bryozoan)[79]
- Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (pine wood nematode)[80]
- Cavelerius saccharivorus (oriental chinch bug)[81]
- Chamberlinius hualinensis[82]
- Coptotermes formosanus (Formosan subterranean termite)[83]
- Corbicula fluminea (Asian clam)[84]
- Corythucha ciliata (sycamore lace bug)[85]
- Crangonyx floridanus (Florida crangonyctid)[86]
- Crepidula fornicata (common slipper shell)[87]
- Crepidula onyx (onyx slippersnail)[88]
- Cylas formicarius (sweet potato weevil)[89]
- Delta pyriforme[90]
- Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing drosophila)[91]
- Dryocosmus kuriphilus (chestnut gall wasp)[92]
- Epilachna varivestis (Mexican bean beetle)[93]
- Euglandina rosea (rosy wolfsnail)[94]
- Euscepes postfasciatus (West Indian sweetpotato weevil)[95]
- Frankliniella occidentalis (western flower thrips)[96]
- Globodera rostochiensis (golden nematode)[97]
- Hydroides elegans[98]
- Hylurgus ligniperda (red-haired pine bark beetle)[99]
- Hypera postica (alfalfa weevil)[100]
- Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm)[101]
- Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale)[102]
- Latrodectus geometricus (brown widow)[103]
- Latrodectus hasseltii (redback spider)[104]
- Limnoperna fortunei (golden mussel)[105]
- Linepithema humile (Argentine ant)[106]
- Liriomyza sativae (vegetable leaf miner)[107]
- Liriomyza trifolii (serpentine leafminer)[108]
- Lissachatina fulica (giant African snail)[109]
- Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus (rice water weevil)[110]
- Monomorium pharaonis (pharaoh ant)[111]
- Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mediterranean mussel)[112]
- Nassarius sinarus (Nassarius snail)[113]
- Nealsomyia rufella[114]
- Opisthoplatia orientalis[115]
- Pacifastacus leniusculus (signal crayfish)[116]
- Paraglenea fortunei[117]
- Parasa lepida (nettle caterpillar)[118]
- Perna viridis (Asian green mussel)[119]
- Pheidole megacephala (big-headed ant)[120]
- Platydemus manokwari (New Guinea flatworm)[121]
- Polyandrocarpa zorritensis[122]
- Pomacea canaliculata (apple snail)[123]
- Potamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail)[124]
- Procambarus clarkii (red swamp crawfish)[125]
- Pyromaia tuberculata (tuberculate pear crab)[126]
- Quadrastichus erythrinae (Erythrina gall wasp)[127]
- Rhabdoscelus obscurus (sugarcane weevil borer)[128]
- Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (red palm weevil)[129]
- Solenopsis geminata (fire ant)[130]
- Thrips palmi (melon thrips)[131]
- Trialeurodes vaporariorum (glasshouse whitefly)[132]
- Unaspis yanonensis (arrowhead snow scale)[133]
- Vespa velutina (Asian predatory wasp)[134]
- Xyleborus volvulus[135]
- Xenostrobus securis (small brown mussel)[136]
Plant species
References
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