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Amami rabbit
The Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi), or, also known as the Ryukyu rabbit, is a primitive, dark-furred rabbit which is only found in Amami Ōshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Kagoshima Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan. Often called a living fossil, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small Japanese islands where they live today.
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Ape
Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid primates native to Africa and Southeast Asia.
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Apodemus
Apodemus is the genus of Muridae (true mice and rats) which contains the Eurasian field mice.
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Aquatic adaptation
Several animal groups have undergone aquatic adaptation, going from being purely terrestrial animals to living at least part of the time in water.
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Arvicolinae
The Arvicolinae are a subfamily of rodents that includes the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.
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Asian house shrew
The Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) grey musk shrew, Asian musk shrew, money shrew, or simply house shrew is a widespread, adaptable species of shrew found mainly in South Asia but introduced widely throughout Asia and eastern Africa.
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Asian particolored bat
The Asian parti-colored bat (Vespertilio sinensis) is a species of parti-coloured bat.
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Asiatic water shrew
The Asiatic water shrews are the members of the genus Chimarrogale.
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Azumi shrew
The Azumi shrew (Sorex hosonoi) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Balaena
Balaena is a genus of cetacean (whale) in the family Balaenidae.
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Balaenidae
Balaenidae is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti that contains two living genera.
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Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera, from the Latin balaena (whale) and Ancient Greek pteron (fin), is a genus of Balaenopteridae, the rorquals, and contains eight extant species.
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Baleen whale
Baleen whales (systematic name Mysticeti), known earlier as whalebone whales, form a parvorder of the infraorder Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises).
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Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
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Beaked whale
Beaked whales are the members of the family Ziphiidae, which consists of 23 species.
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
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Bearded seal
The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean.
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Beluga whale
The beluga whale or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.
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Birdlike noctule
The birdlike noctule (Nyctalus aviator) is a species of bat.
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Blainville's beaked whale
Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the dense-beaked whale, is the widest ranging mesoplodont whale and perhaps the most documented.
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Blue whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale parvorder, Mysticeti.
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Bonin flying fox
The Bonin flying fox, Bonin fruit bat (Pteropus pselaphon), or in Japanese is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae.
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Bottlenose dolphin
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin.
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Bovidae
The Bovidae are the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes bison, African buffalo, water buffalo, antelopes, wildebeest, impala, gazelles, sheep, goats, muskoxen, and domestic cattle.
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Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of the family Balaenidae, in suborder Mysticeti, and genus Balaena, which once included the right whale.
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Brown long-eared bat
The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a small Eurasian bat.
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Bryde's whale
Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three.
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Canidae
The biological family Canidae (from Latin, canis, “dog”) is a lineage of carnivorans that includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals.
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Caniformia
Caniformia, or Canoidea (literally "dog-like"), is a suborder within the order Carnivora.
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Canis
Canis is a genus of the Canidae containing multiple extant species, such as wolves, coyotes, jackals, dingoes, and dogs.
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Caprinae
Subfamily Caprinae is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids.
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Capybara
The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America.
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Carnivora
Carnivora (from Latin carō (stem carn-) "flesh" and vorāre "to devour") is a diverse scrotiferan order that includes over 280 species of placental mammals.
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Catarrhini
Catarrhini is one of the two subdivisions of the simians, the other being the plathyrrhine (New World monkeys).
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Cervinae
The Cervinae or the Old World deer (denoting their place of origin, not their current distribution), are a subfamily of deer.
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Cervus
Cervus is a genus of deer that primarily are native to Eurasia, although one species occurs in northern Africa and another in North America.
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Cetacea
Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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Chipmunk
Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of the family Sciuridae.
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Common bent-wing bat
The common bent-wing bat, Schreibers' long-fingered bat, or Schreibers' bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) is a species of bat in the family Miniopteridae.
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Common bottlenose dolphin
The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, is the most well-known species from the family Delphinidae.
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Common minke whale
The common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.
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Common noctule
The common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
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Cricetidae
The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea.
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Crocidura
The genus Crocidura is one of nine genera of the shrew subfamily Crocidurinae.
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Cuvier's beaked whale
Cuvier's beaked whale or the goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), the only member of the genus Ziphius, is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales.
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Dall's porpoise
Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) is a species of porpoise found only in the North Pacific.
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Daubenton's bat
Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) is a Eurasian bat with rather short ears.
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Deer
Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.
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Delphinus
Delphinus (Eng. U.S.) Eng.
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Diplothrix
Diplothrix is a genus of two species of rodents in the family Muridae.
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Dolphin
Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.
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Dormouse
A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists).
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Dsinezumi shrew
The Dsinezumi shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi), also known as the Japanese white-toothed shrew, is a species of musk shrew found in Japan and on Korea's Jeju Island.
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Dugong
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal.
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Dugongidae
The Dugongidae are a family in the order of Sirenia.
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Dwarf sperm whale
The dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima, formerly Kogia simus) is one of three extant species in the sperm whale family.
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Eared seal
An eared seal or otariid or otary is any member of the marine mammal family Otariidae, one of three groupings of pinnipeds.
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Earless seal
The earless seals, phocids or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia.
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Eastern long-fingered bat
The eastern long-fingered bat, or big-footed myotis (Myotis macrodactylus) is a species of vesper bat.
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Echigo mole
The Echigo mole (Mogera etigo) is an endangered species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Economy
An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.
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Elephant seal
Elephant seals are large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.
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Endo's pipistrelle
Endo's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus endoi) is a species of vesper bat that is endemic to Japan.
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Eptesicus
Eptesicus is a genus of bats, commonly called house bats, in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Eschrichtiidae
Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (suborder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus).
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Eurasian harvest mouse
The harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) is a small rodent native to Europe and Asia.
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Eurasian least shrew
The Eurasian least shrew (Sorex minutissimus), also called the lesser pygmy shrew, is the second-smallest mammal by mass after the Etruscan shrew.
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Eurasian otter
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), also known as the European otter, Eurasian river otter, common otter, and Old World otter, is a semiaquatic mammal native to Eurasia.
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European free-tailed bat
The European free-tailed bat (Tadarida teniotis, sometimes given as Tadarida insignis) is a species of free-tailed bat found in the Old World.
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Euroscaptor
Euroscaptor is a genus of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Eutheria
Eutheria (from Greek εὐ-, eu- "good" or "right" and θηρίον, thēríon "beast" hence "true beasts") is one of two mammalian clades with extant members that diverged in the Early Cretaceous or perhaps the Late Jurassic.
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Even-toed ungulate
The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne equally by the third and fourth toes.
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False killer whale
The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is the third-largest dolphin, a member of the oceanic dolphins.
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Far Eastern myotis
The Far Eastern myotis or bombinus bat, (Myotis bombinus), is a species of mouse-eared bat found in East Asia.
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Felidae
The biological family Felidae is a lineage of carnivorans colloquially referred to as cats.
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Feliformia
Feliformia (also Feloidea) is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "cat-like" carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, civets, and related taxa.
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Felinae
The Felinae are a subfamily of the family Felidae that includes the genera and species presented below.
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Fin whale
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also known as finback whale or common rorqual and formerly known as herring whale or razorback whale, is a marine mammal belonging to the parvorder of baleen whales.
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Finless porpoise
The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), or finless porpoise, is one of seven porpoise species.
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Flying squirrel
Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae.
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Forest tube-nosed bat
The forest tube-nosed bat (Murina silvatica) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Fraser's dolphin
Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) or the Sarawak dolphin is a cetacean in the family Delphinidae found in deep waters in the Pacific Ocean and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
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Fraternal myotis
The fraternal myotis (Myotis frater) is a species of vesper bat.
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Free-tailed bat
The Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera.
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Frosted myotis
The frosted myotis (クロホオヒゲコウモリ in Japanese) (Myotis pruinosus) is a species of vesper bat.
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Giant beaked whale
Giant beaked whales are species of beaked whales in the genus Berardius: Arnoux's beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii) in cold Southern Hemisphere waters, and Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii) in the cold temperate waters of the North Pacific.
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Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
The ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) is a poorly known species of whale even for a beaked whale, and was named for the unusual shape of its dual teeth.
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Glirinae
The Glirinae are a subfamily of dormice (Gliridae); it contains two extant genera, each having one species: Subfamily Glirinae.
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Gloomy tube-nosed bat
The gloomy tube-nosed bat (Murina tenebrosa) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Goral
The gorals are four species in the genus Nemorhaedus or Naemorhedus.
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Gray whale
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale,Britannica Micro.: v. IV, p. 693.
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Greater horseshoe bat
The greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) is a European bat of the genus Rhinolophus.
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Greater tube-nosed bat
The greater tube-nosed bat (Murina leucogaster) is a species of bat.
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Grey red-backed vole
The grey red-backed vole or the grey-sided vole (Myodes rufocanus) is a species of vole.
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Ground squirrel
The ground squirrels are members of the squirrel family of rodents (Sciuridae) which generally live on or in the ground, rather than trees.
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Haplorhini
Haplorhini (the haplorhines or the "dry-nosed" primates, the Greek name means "simple-nosed") is a suborder of primates containing the tarsiers and the simians (Simiiformes or anthropoids), as sister of the Strepsirrhini.
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Harbor seal
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Harbour porpoise
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of six species of porpoise.
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Hare
Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.
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Herpestes
Herpestes is a genus of the mongoose family (Herpestidae).
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Himalayan water shrew
The Himalayan water shrew (Chimarrogale himalayica) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Hipposideridae
The Hipposideridae are a family of bats commonly known as the Old World leaf-nosed bats.
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Hipposideros
Hipposideros is one of the most diverse genera of bats, with more than 70 species.
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Hodgson's bat
Hodgson's bat (Myotis formosus), also called the copper-winged bat, is a species of vesper bat in the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats.
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Hokkaido red-backed vole
The Hokkaido red-backed vole (Myodes rex) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Hokkaido wolf
The Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai), also known as the and in Russia as the Sakhalin wolf,Heptner, V. G. & Naumov, N., P. (1998), Science Publishers, Inc., USA, pp.
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Horseshoe bat
Horseshoe bats make up the bat family Rhinolophidae.
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Horsfield's shrew
The Horsfield's shrew (Crocidura horsfieldii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Hubbs' beaked whale
Hubbs' beaked whale (Mesoplodon carlhubbsi) was initially thought to be an Andrews' beaked whale when discovered by ichthyologist Carl Hubbs; however, it was named in his honor when it was discovered to be a new species.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.
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Hydrodamalinae
Hydrodamalinae is a recently extinct subfamily of the sirenian family Dugongidae.
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Hydrodamalis
Hydrodamalis is a genus of extinct herbivorous sirenian marine mammals, and included the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), the Cuesta sea cow (Hydrodamalis cuestae), and the Takikawa sea cow (Hydrodamalis spissa).
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Hypsugo
The genus Hypsugo contains many bats referred to as pipistrelles or pipistrelle bats.
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Ikonnikov's bat
Ikonnikov's bat (Myotis ikonnikovi) is a species of vesper bat.
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Imaizumi's horseshoe bat
Imaizumi's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus imaizumii) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae.
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Incisor
Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Iriomote cat
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis) is a subspecies of the leopard cat that lives exclusively on the Japanese island of Iriomote.
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IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanese badger
The Japanese badger (Meles anakuma) is a species of carnivoran of the family Mustelidae, the weasels and their kin.
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Japanese black bear
The Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) is a subspecies of the Asian black bear that lives on three main islands of Japan: Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu.
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Japanese boar
The Japanese boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax), also known as the white-moustached pig,von Siebold, P. F. (1842),, Volume 1, Müller, pp.
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Japanese dormouse
The Japanese dormouse (Glirulus japonicus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae endemic to Japan.
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Japanese dwarf flying squirrel
The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel (Pteromys momonga; Japanese: ニホンモモンガ; Hepburn: Nihon momonga) is one of two species of Old World flying squirrels in the genus Pteromys.
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Japanese giant flying squirrel
The is a species of flying squirrel, one of eight species of giant flying squirrels.
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Japanese grass vole
The Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Japanese hare
The Japanese hare (Lepus brachyurus) is a species of hare native to Japan.
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Japanese macaque
The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the snow monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species that is native to Japan.
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Japanese marten
The Japanese marten (Martes melampus) is a mammal in the marten genus most closely related to the sable.
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Japanese mole
The Japanese mole (Mogera wogura), also known as Temminck's mole, is a species of mole native to East Asia.
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Japanese mountain mole
The Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Japanese raccoon dog
The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus), also known as in Japanese, is a subspecies of the Asian raccoon dog.
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Japanese red-backed vole
The Japanese red-backed vole or Wakayama red-backed vole or Anderson's red-backed vole (Myodes andersoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Japanese river otter
The is an extinct variety of otter formerly widespread in Japan.
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Japanese sea lion
The was an aquatic mammal thought to have become extinct in the 1970s.
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Japanese serow
The Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) is a Japanese goat-antelope, an even-toed ungulate mammal.
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Japanese shrew mole
The Japanese shrew mole or himizu (ヒミズ) (Urotrichus talpoides) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Japanese squirrel
The Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Japan.
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Japanese water shrew
The Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephalus), also called the flat-headed water shrew, is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Japanese weasel
The Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi) is a carnivorous mammal belonging to the genus Mustela in the family Mustelidae.
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Japanese wolf
The (Canis lupus hodophilax) is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. It is also known as the Honshū wolf. Its binomial name derives from the Greek Hodos (path) and phylax (guardian), in reference to Japanese folklore, which portrayed wolves as the protectors of travellers. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Hokkaidō wolf.
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Javan mongoose
The Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) is a species of mongoose found in the wild in South and Southeast Asia.
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Killer whale
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Kobe mole
The Kobe mole (Mogera kobeae) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Kogia
Kogia is a genus of toothed whales within the superfamily Physeteroidea comprising two extant and one extinct species: Fossils date to the miocene.
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Kogiidae
Kogiidae is a family comprising at least two extant species of Cetacea, the pygmy and dwarf sperm whales.
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Korean field mouse
The Korean field mouse (Apodemus peninsulae), also known as the Korean wood mouse, is a species of mouse.
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La Touche's free-tailed bat
The La Touche's free-tailed bat (Tadarida latouchei) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae.
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Lagenorhynchus
Lagenorhynchus is a genus in the order Cetacea, traditionally containing six species.
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Lagomorpha
The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae (hares and rabbits) and the Ochotonidae (pikas).
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Large Japanese field mouse
The large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus) is a nocturnal species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Least weasel
The least weasel (Mustela nivalis), or simply weasel in the UK and much of the world, is the smallest member of the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae and order Carnivora.
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Lemur
Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar.
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Leopard cat
The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small wild cat native to continental South, Southeast and East Asia.
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Leporidae
Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares, containing over 60 species of extant mammals in all.
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Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
The lesser great leaf-nosed bat or lesser roundleaf bat (Hipposideros turpis) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae.
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Lesser white-toothed shrew
The lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens) is a tiny shrew with a widespread distribution in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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List of animals in Japan
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List of chordate orders
This page contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata.
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List of mammals described in the 2000s
Although the mammals are well studied in comparison to other animal groups, a number of new species are still being discovered.
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List of prehistoric mammals
This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals.
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Lists of mammals by region
The following are the regional mammal lists by continent.
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Little Japanese horseshoe bat
The little Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae.
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Long-beaked common dolphin
The long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis) is a species of common dolphin.
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Long-clawed shrew
The long-clawed shrew (Sorex unguiculatus) is a species of shrew.
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Lorisoidea
Lorisoidea is a superfamily of nocturnal primates found throughout Africa and Asia.
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Lutra
Lutra is a genus of otters, one of seven in the subfamily Lutrinae.
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Macaque
The macaques (or pronunciation by Oxford Dictionaries) constitute a genus (Macaca) of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.
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Mammal classification
Mammalia is a class of animal within the Phylum Chordata.
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Mariana fruit bat
The Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus mariannus), also known as the Mariana flying fox, and the fanihi in Chamorro, is a megabat found only in the Northern Mariana Islands and Ulithi (an atoll in the Caroline Islands).
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Marten
The martens constitute the genus Martes within the subfamily Mustelinae, in the family Mustelidae.
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Megabat
Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, and its only family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).
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Meles (genus)
Meles is a genus of badgers containing three living species, the Japanese badger (Meles anakuma), Asian badger (Meles leucurus), and European badger (Meles meles).
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Melon-headed whale
The melon-headed whale or melon-headed dolphin (species Peponocephala electra; other names are many-toothed blackfish, "melon whale" and electra dolphin) is a cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).
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Mesoplodont whale
Mesoplodont whales are fifteen species of toothed whale in the genus Mesoplodon, making it the largest genus in the cetacean order.
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Micromys
Micromys is a genus of small rodents in the subfamily Murinae.
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Microtus
Microtus is a genus of voles found in North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
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Miniopterus
Miniopterus (bent-winged bat, long winged bat) is the only genus of bats in the family Miniopteridae.
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Mogera
Mogera is a genus of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Mole (animal)
Moles are small mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle (i.e., fossorial).
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Mongoose
Mongoose is the popular English name for 29 of the 34 species in the 14 genera of the family Herpestidae, which are small feliform carnivorans native to southern Eurasia and mainland Africa.
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Monkey
Monkeys are non-hominoid simians, generally possessing tails and consisting of about 260 known living species.
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Monodontidae
The cetacean family Monodontidae comprises two unusual whale species, the narwhal, in which the male has a long tusk, and the dorsal fin-lacking, pure white beluga whale.
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Mountain hare
The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare, and Irish hare, is a Palearctic hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.
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Mouse
A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.
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Mouse-eared bat
The mouse-eared bats (Myotis) are a diverse and widespread genus of bats within the family Vespertilionidae.
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Muennink's spiny rat
Muennink's spiny rat or Okinawa Spiny Rat (Tokudaia muenninki) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Muridae
The Muridae, or murids, are the largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing over 700 species found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.
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Murina
Murina is a genus of vesper bats.
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Murinae
The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species.
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Murininae
The Murininae are a subfamily of bats in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Mustelidae
The Mustelidae (from Latin mustela, weasel) are a family of carnivorous mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, martens, mink, and wolverines, among others.
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Natterer's bat
Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri) is a European vespertilionid bat with pale wings.
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Nectogalini
Nectogalini is a tribe of Old World water shrews within the family Soricidae.
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North Pacific right whale
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered.
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Northern bat
The northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) is the most abundant species of bat in northern Eurasia.
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Northern elephant seal
The northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) is one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the southern elephant seal).
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Northern fur seal
The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is an eared seal found along the north Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Northern pika
The northern pika (Ochotona hyperborea) also known as the Japanese guinea pig is a species of pika found across mountainous regions of northern Asia, from the Ural Mountains to northern Japan and south through Mongolia, Manchuria and northern Korea.
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Northern red-backed vole
The northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus) is a small slender vole found in Alaska, northern Canada, Scandinavia and northern Russia.
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Northern right whale dolphin
The northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) is a small, slender and finless species of marine mammal found in the North Pacific Ocean.
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Nyctalus
Nyctalus is a genus of vespertilionid bats commonly known as the noctule bats.
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Nyctereutes
Nyctereutes is an Old World genus of the family Canidae, consisting of just one living species, the raccoon dog of East Asia.
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Oceanic dolphin
Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea.
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Odd-toed ungulate
Members of the order Perissodactyla, also known as odd-toed ungulates, are mammals characterized by an odd number of toes and by hindgut fermentation with somewhat simple stomachs.
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Odobenidae
Odobenidae is a family of pinnipeds.
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Okinawa flying fox
The Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis) is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus.
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Old World flying squirrel
Commonly referred to as the Old World flying squirrels, the genus Pteromys is distributed across temperate Eurasia, the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
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Old World monkey
The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a family of catarrhines, the only family in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade (or parvorder) of Catarrhini.
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Omura's whale
Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known.
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Orcinus
Orcinus is a genus of oceanic dolphin comprising four species: O. paleorca, O. citoniensis, O. meyeri, and O. orca, of which only one (O. orca, i.e. the killer whale) is extant.
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Pacific white-sided dolphin
The Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) is a very active dolphin found in the cool to temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean.
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Pantropical spotted dolphin
The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is a species of dolphin found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans.
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Petaurista
Petaurista is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae.
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Phoca
Phoca is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae.
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Phocoena
Phocoena is a genus of porpoises with four extant species.
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Physeteroidea
Physeteroidea is a superfamily that, today, includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia.
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Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.
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Pika
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala.
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Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus is a genius of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae.
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Plecotus
The genus Plecotus consists of the long-eared bats.
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Porpoise
Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals that are sometimes referred to as mereswine, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales).
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Primate
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").
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Prionailurus
Prionailurus is a genus of spotted, small wild cats native to Asia.
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Pteropodinae
The Pteropodinae are a subfamily of megabats.
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Pteropus
Bats of the genus Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) are among the largest bats in the world.
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Pusa
Pusa is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae.
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Pygmy killer whale
The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is a poorly known and rarely seen oceanic dolphin.
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Pygmy sperm whale
The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three species in the family Kogiidae in the sperm whale family.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.
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Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia.
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Red squirrel
The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Eurasia.
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Red-backed vole
Red-backed voles are small, slender voles of the genus Myodes found in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Red-toothed shrew
The red-toothed shrews of the subfamily Soricinae are one of three living subfamilies of shrews, along with Crocidurinae (white-toothed shrews) and Myosoricinae (African white-toothed shrews).
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Ribbon seal
The ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata) is a medium-sized pinniped from the true seal family (Phocidae).
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Right whale
Right whales or black whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale (E. glacialis), the North Pacific right whale (E. japonica) and the Southern right whale (E. australis).
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Right whale dolphin
Right whale dolphins are cetaceans belonging to the genus Lissodelphis.
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Ringed seal
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida or Phoca hispida), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal (family: Phocidae) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
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Risso's dolphin
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is the only species of dolphin in the genus Grampus.
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River dolphin
River dolphins are a group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water.
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Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
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Rorqual
Rorquals (Balaenopteridae) are the largest group of baleen whales, a family with nine extant species in two genera.
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Rough-toothed dolphin
The rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) is a species of dolphin that can be found in deep warm and tropical waters around the world.
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Ryukyu flying fox
The Ryukyu flying fox or Ryukyu fruit bat (Pteropus dasymallus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.
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Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat
The Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat or Ryukyu rat (Diplothrix legata) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Ryukyu mouse
The Ryukyu mouse (Mus caroli) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Ryukyu shrew
The Ryukyu shrew (Crocidura orii), also known as Orii's shrew is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Ryukyu spiny rat
The Ryukyu spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Ryukyu tube-nosed bat
The Ryukyu tube-nosed bat (Murina ryukyuana) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Sable
The sable (Martes zibellina) is a marten species, a small carnivorous mammal inhabiting forest environments, primarily in Russia from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, northern Mongolia.
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Sado mole
The Sado mole or Tokuda's mole (Mogera tokudae) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Sado shrew
The Sado shrew (Sorex sadonis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Savi's pipistrelle
Savi's pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii sometimes classified as Pipistrellus savii) is a species of vesper bat found across North West Africa, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East.
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Sciurinae
Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels in the (family Sciuridae), uniting the flying squirrels with certain related tree squirrels.
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Sciurini
Sciurini is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels,Thorington and Hoffmann, 2005, p. 754 mostly from the Americas.
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Sciurognathi
Sciurognathi is a suborder of rodents that includes squirrels, chipmunks, beavers, and many types of mice.
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Sciurus
The genus Sciurus contains most of the common, bushy-tailed squirrels in North America, Europe, temperate Asia, Central America and South America.
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Sea otter
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.
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Sei whale
The sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) is a baleen whale, the third-largest rorqual after the blue whale and the fin whale.
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Senkaku mole
The Senkaku mole (Mogera uchidai), also known as the Ryukyu mole, is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Shinto shrew
The Shinto shrew (Sorex shinto) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Short-beaked common dolphin
The short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is a species of common dolphin.
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Short-finned pilot whale
The short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) is one of the two species of cetaceans in the genus Globicephala.
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Shrew
A shrew (family Soricidae) is a small mole-like mammal classified in the order Eulipotyphla.
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Siberian chipmunk
The Siberian chipmunk or common chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus) appears across northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and Hokkaidō in northern Japan.
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Siberian flying squirrel
The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel with a range from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Coast in the east.
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Sika deer
The sika deer (Cervus nippon) also known as the spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia, and introduced to various other parts of the world.
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Simian
The simians (infraorder Simiiformes) are monkeys and apes, cladistically including: the New World monkeys or platyrrhines, and the catarrhine clade consisting of the Old World monkeys and apes (including humans).
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Sirenia
The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.
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Slender shrew
The slender shrew (Sorex gracillimus) is a species of shrew.
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Small Japanese field mouse
The small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Small Japanese mole
The small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Smith's vole
Smith's vole (Myodes smithii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Solenodon
Solenodons (meaning "slotted-tooth") are venomous, nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals belonging to the family Solenodontidae.
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Sorex
The genus Sorex includes many of the common shrews of Eurasia and North America, and contains at least 142 known species and subspecies.
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Soricomorpha
Soricomorpha ("shrew-form") is a taxon within the class of mammals.
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Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
The Southeast Asian long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fuscus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
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Spinner dolphin
The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world.
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Spotted seal
The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a member of the family Phocidae, and is considered a "true seal".
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Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents.
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Stejneger's beaked whale
Stejneger's beaked whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri), also known as the Bering Sea beaked whale or the saber-toothed whale, is a relatively unknown member of the genus Mesoplodon inhabiting the northern North Pacific Ocean.
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Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), also known as the northern sea lion and Steller's sea lion, is a near-threatened species of sea lions in the northern Pacific.
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Steller's sea cow
Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct sirenian discovered by Europeans in 1741.
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Stenella
Stenella is a genus of aquatic mammals in Delphinidae, the family informally known as the oceanic dolphins.
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Stoat
The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel or simply the weasel in Ireland where the least weasel does not occur, is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
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Striped dolphin
The striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is an extensively studied dolphin found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans.
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Sturdee's pipistrelle
Sturdee's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus sturdeei) is a bat that was thought to have lived in Japan before officially becoming extinct in 2000.
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Suidae
Suidae is a family of artiodactyl mammals which are commonly called pigs, hogs or boars.
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Suinae
Suinae is a subfamily of artiodactyl mammals that includes at several of the extant members of Suidae and their closest relatives—the domestic pig and related species, such as babirusas.
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Suncus
Suncus is a genus of shrews in the family Soricidae.
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Tadarida
The genus Tadarida has 9 or more species of free-tailed bats divided into two subgenera, with the first of these containing seven species spread across the Old World (including southern Europe and North Africa, large parts of southern Asia, and India right across to Japan).
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Talpidae
The family Talpidae includes the moles, shrew moles, desmans, and other intermediate forms of small insectivorous mammals of the order Eulipotyphla.
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Talpinae
The subfamily Talpinae, sometimes called "Old World moles" or "Old World moles and relatives", is one of three subfamilies of the mole family Talpidae, the others being the Scalopinae, or New World moles, and the Uropsilinae, or shrew-like moles.
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Talpini
Talpini is a tribe, in the scientific classification system of binomial nomenclature.
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Tanezumi rat
The Tanezumi rat (Rattus tanezumi), also known as the Asian rat or Asian house rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in a taxonomic hierarchy.
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Theria
Theria (Greek: θηρίον, wild beast) is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes (the sister taxa to Yinotheria).
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Tokudaia
Tokudaia is a genus of murine rodent native to Japan.
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Toothed whale
The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and sperm whales.
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Tropical bottlenose whale
The tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale and Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position.
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True's shrew mole
True's shrew mole (Dymecodon pilirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae.
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Ungulate
Ungulates (pronounced) are any members of a diverse group of primarily large mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraffes, camels, deer, and hippopotami.
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Urotrichini
Urotrichini is a tribe of the mole family, and consists of Japanese and American shrew-moles.
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Ursus (genus)
Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae (bears) that includes the widely distributed brown bears, the polar bear, black bears and Ursus thibetanus, the Asiatic black bear.
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Ussuri brown bear
The Ussuri brown bear (Ursus arctos lasiotus), also known as the black grizzly is a subspecies of the brown bear.
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Vesper bat
Vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae), also known as evening bats or common bats, are the largest and most-studied family of bats.
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Vespertilio
Vespertilio is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Vespertilioninae
The Vespertilioninae are a subfamily of vesper bats from the family Vespertilionidae.
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Vulpes
Vulpes is a genus of the Canidae.
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Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Weasel
A weasel is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
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Whiskered bat
The whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) and related species, are small European bats with long fur.
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White-toothed shrew
The white-toothed shrews or Crocidurinae are one of three subfamilies of the shrew family Soricidae.
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Wild boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine,Heptner, V. G.; Nasimovich, A. A.; Bannikov, A. G.; Hoffman, R. S. (1988), Volume I, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp.
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Wildlife of Japan
The wildlife of Japan includes its flora, fauna and natural habitats.
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Xerinae
The Xerinae comprise a subfamily of squirrels, many of which are highly terrestrial.
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Yanbaru whiskered bat
The Yanbaru whiskered bat (Myotis yanbarensis) is a species of vesper bat in the genus Myotis.
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Zalophus
Zalophus is a genus of the family Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals) of order Carnivora.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Japan
