
Wildlife by group and country
Japan's five sites all lie in the Ryukyu archipelago and the Ogasawara Islands, World Heritage, and none goes below 35 metres. Ishigaki is a manta cleaning station and the Yonaguni monument a rock formation whose origin is disputed. Only three species are linked, and the humphead wrasse is endangered.
Places come from reviewed species-place links; the species shown at each place are only those in this group.