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Japanese Raccoon Dog
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Japanese Raccoon Dog

Nyctereutes viverrinus

The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus), also known as tanuki (狸 or たぬき, ) in Japanese, is a subspecies of the Asian raccoon dog.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 855310.