Muennink's spiny rat
Species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Yanbaru
Okinawan and Kunigami name given to the forested northern part of Okinawa Island in Japan.
Rare species include the flightless Okinawa rail (Yanbaru kuina in Japanese), Okinawa woodpecker (Special Natural Monument), Ryukyu robin, Amami woodcock, Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle, Anderson's crocodile newt, Ishikawa's frog, Holst's frog, Namiye's frog, Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat, and Muennink's spiny rat.
List of mammals of Japan
List of mammal species recorded in Japan .
Of the 172 species of mammal found—112 native terrestrial mammals (those that are endemic are identified below; this number includes 37 species of bat), 19 introduced species, 40 species of Cetacea, and the dugong—161 are listed for the Japan region on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: of these, four taxa are critically endangered (Iriomote cat, Muennink's spiny rat, Yanbaru whiskered bat, and Gloomy tube-nosed bat), twenty-one are endangered, eight are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened; the Japanese sea lion and Bonin or Sturdee's pipistrelle are evaluated as extinct.
List of rodents
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors.
Tokudaia muenninki
Endangered Species (Japan)
In the context of the conservation of endangered species in Japan, and the list below, Endangered Species (希少野生動植物種) are those designated by Cabinet order in accordance with the 1992 Act on Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Muennink's spiny rat, Tokudaia muenninki
