Wildlifeof Japan
Japanese Hare
Pangolins, Treeshrews, Shrews & Gymnures
Photo: (c) Junichi Mandai, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0
Lepus brachyurus
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Japanese Hare (Lepus brachyurus) is a hare recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Near threatened (Japan MOE Red List 2020).