ezo-tanuki エゾタヌキ

Translation

ezo-tanuki means "Japanese Raccoon Dog" in English.

ホンドタヌキ vs. エゾタヌキ

The hondo-tanuki, Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus, is a tanuki タヌキ from the "mainland," hondo 本土, while the ezo-tanuki, Nyctereutes procyonides albus, comes from the term Ezo, which along with Ebisu, Emishi, all spelled 蝦夷, referred to the people and tribes that lived in northeastern Honshū 本州 and Hokkaidō 北海道.

ezo-tanuki is normally written with katakana, as エゾタヌキ.
ezo-tanuki written with hiragana is えぞたぬき.

ezo-tanuki written with kanji is 蝦夷狸.
This word contains non-jouyou kanji 常用漢字.

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