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JAPANESE WILD ANIMALS (5)

RODENTIA Muridae

MURIDAE Grey Red-backed Vole

Body length 11-14cm. Tail length 4-6cm. This vole live in Hokkaido.

MURIDAE "Mukuge" Red-backed Vole

Body length 11-14cm. Tail length 4-6cm. This vole is a characteristic species in Japan live in Hokkaido.

MURIDAE Northern Red-backed Vole

Body length 8-11cm. Tail length 3-4cm.

MURIDAE Japanese Red-backed Vole

Body length 8-13cm. Tail length 5-8cm. This vole live in Honsyu.

MURIDAE Smith's Red-backed Vole

Body length 8-12cm. Tail length 3-6cm. This vole live in Honsyu and Shikoku, kyusyu.

MURIDAE Japanese Field Vole

Body length 10-14cm. Tail length 3-5cm. This vole live in Honsyu and Kyusyu.

MURIDAE Muskrat (importation kind)

Body length 25-36cm. Tail length 20-28cm. A kind of family Rodentia from North America Hara. It lives in the water side.

MURIDAE Harvest Mouse

Body length 5-8cm. Tail length 6-8cm. This is the smallest mouse in Japan. They make a nest like a bird between the stems of the grass.

MURIDAE Striped Field Mouse

Body length 13cm. Tail length 12cm. This mouse live in only Senkaku Islands in Japan.

MURIDAE Small Japanese Field Mouse (Japanese Geisya Mouse)

Body length 7-10cm. Tail length 7-11cm. This mouse live in the wood. They are good at the tree climbing. They are a special product of Japan. The English biologist that it was collected for the first time named it "Geisya".

MURIDAE Korean Field Mouse

Body length 7-8cm. Tail length 7-9cm. This mouse size is in the middle of Small Japanese Field mouse with Large Japanese Field Mouse. It live in Hokkaido.

MURIDAE Large Japanese Field Mouse

Body length 8-14cm. Tail length 7-13cm. This mouse have big ears, big eyes and long tail. It is a typical beautiful mouse like a mouse.

MURIDAE Brown Rat

Body length 19-28cm. Tail length 15-22cm. This rat likes the place where it became wet. They breeds in the drain and so on.

MURIDAE Black Rat

Body length 15-24cm. Tail length 15-26cm. This rat likes the place where it dried. The number increases in the city street lined with office buildings.

MURIDAE Amami Spiny Rat MURIDAE Ryukyu Spiny Rat MURIDAE Tokunoshima Spiny Rat

Body length 12-18cm. Tail length 10-12cm. When it is attacked by a snake, the rat jumps, and dodge the blow. Three kinds of Spiny rats are another species.

MURIDAE Ryukyu Long-tailed Giant Rat

Body length 22-33cm. Tail length 24-33cm. It is the biggest rat in the Japanese rat family.

MURIDAE House Mouse

Body length 6-9cm. Tail length 4-8cm. The Mouse is distributed widely throughout the world.

MURIDAE Ryukyu House Mouse

Body length 6-8cm. Tail length 6-9cm. This Mouse distributed in Okinawa and Taiwan, the Chinese southern part. Their tail is longer than a body.

MYOCASTORIDAE Nutria (importation kind)

Body length 56-63cm. Tail length 30-43cm. A kind of big Rodentia family from South America Hara. It lives in the water side.

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