The
Amami rabbit (
Pentalagus furnessi; ), or , also known as the
Ryukyu rabbit, is a primitive, dark-furred
rabbit which is only found in
Amami Oshima and
Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern
Kyushu and
Okinawa in
Kagoshima Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan. Often called a
living fossil, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small islands where they survive today.