According to statistics accompanying the 2020 Japanese
Ministry of the Environment (MoE)
Red List, one hundred species and subspecies are to be found, but the conservation status of only fifty-seven is detailed.[2][3][4] Of these, five
taxa are critically endangered from a national perspective, nine are endangered, twenty-three vulnerable, seventeen near threatened, and three data deficient.[2][3]
Order:
Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians)
^日本産爬虫両生類標準和名リスト [Standard Japanese Names for the Reptiles and Amphibians of Japan] (in Japanese). Herpetological Society of Japan. 8 September 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.