Fauna of Japan

Fauna of Japan
Japan. Location.
Continent	Asia
Realm(s)	Palearctic; Indo-Malayian
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)	Sclerosomatidae; Nippononychidae; Sabaconidae
Diversity (Project WCO)	117 species

• Japan is an island country in Far East Asia.
• Composition of its fauna has both Palearctic and Indo-malayan elements, changing in a north-south gradient.
• Some of the few intercontinental species of Opiliones occur in Japan, shared with USA.

Japan has the 21st most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 100 species recorded.

This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from Japan, repositories of Japanese Opiliones and authors who worked on Japanese opilionofauna.