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Marine animals
- Japanese sea lily.
- Japanese spider crab.
- Giant squid.
- Nomura's jellyfish.
- Firefly squid.
- Tachypleus tridentatus.
- What are 3 animals that live in Japan?
- What kind of sharks are in Japanese waters?
- What is Japan's famous animal?
- Which group includes all marine animals?
- Is coral an animal?
- What are the 5 groups of marine mammals?
- Is the red panda native to Japan?
- Do red pandas live in Japan?
- What is the largest marine animal?
- What's the longest sea creature?
- What's the biggest sea creature ever?
What are 3 animals that live in Japan?
The Japanese macaque, the Japanese weasel, the Japanese serow, the Japanese squirrel, the Japanese giant flying squirrel, the Japanese dwarf flying squirrel, the Japanese red-backed vole, the Okinawa spiny rat, the Japanese dormouse, the Amami rabbit and the Japanese hares are endemic mammals of Japan.
What kind of sharks are in Japanese waters?
The primary three species of sharks landed at the ports in Japan are the Blue Shark (Prionace glauca), Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and Salmon Shark (Lamna ditropis).
What is Japan's famous animal?
The so-called snow monkey, the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), is Japan's national animal.
Which group includes all marine animals?
We are included in the Phylum Chordata, which includes all animals with a nerve cord (called a notochord) at some stage of their development. Marine life in this phylum includes marine mammals (cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, sea otters, polar bears), fish, tunicates, seabirds, and reptiles.
Is coral an animal?
Corals are animals, though, because they do not make their own food, as plants do. ... Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps.
What are the 5 groups of marine mammals?
Marine mammals are classified into four different taxonomic groups: cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), and marine fissipeds (polar bears and sea otters).
Is the red panda native to Japan?
Himalayan red pandas are native to Nepal, India, Bhutan and southern Tibet in China. International experts have estimated a total population of roughly 10,000 red pandas in the wild. ... Scientists previously recognized red pandas as divided into two subspecies.
Do red pandas live in Japan?
Red pandas live in the Eastern Himalayas in places like China, Nepal, and Bhutan. They spend most of their time in trees. Their semi-retractable claws help them move easily from branch to branch.
What is the largest marine animal?
The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.
What's the longest sea creature?
While the blue whale is the overall-largest king of the sea, the lion's mane jellyfish goes to the top of the list for being the longest. And as the longest medusozoa of all, these languid beauties have tentacles that reach an astonishing 120 feet in length.
What's the biggest sea creature ever?
Not only is the blue whale the largest animal to live on the Earth today, they are also the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth. A blue whale can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh upwards of 200 tons. A blue whale's tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant and its heart weighs as much as an automobile.
