MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 13507 Adjacent waters of Takahashi River mouth
Relevant municipalities | Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 21 |
Selected by experts due to endangered species are found.
These are the waters in the vicinity of the mouth of the Takahashi River. In the waters at the mouth of the Takahashi River and its environs unfold zoogeographically important river-mouth tidal mud flats that are habitat to Gymnogobius cylindricus (an endangered species), Gymnogobius macrognathos, Eutaeniichthys gilli and other species distributed only in very limited places in the Seto Inland Sea and the Ariake Sea (Suzuki et al., 2006; Shigeta, 2008).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | 1.5 |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 0.8 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 3.4 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 1 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Cyclina sinensis |
Cingulina sp. |
Solen strictus |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Charadrius alexandrinus (Kentish Plover)[Br/Ne] |
<Pisces> |
Takifugu rubripes (Japanese pufferfish)[Sp] |
Paralichthys olivaceus (Bastard halibut)[Sp] |
<Cephalopoda> |
Octopus vulgaris (Common octopus) |
Criteria 3 |
<Insecta> |
Cicindela lewisi |
<Crustacea> |
Macrophthalmus japonicus |
Criteria 7 |
<Crustacea> |
Macrophthalmus japonicus |
<Vascular Plants> |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
* This is the species list of which meet the criteria. In that matter, this list does not include all species that inhabit the individual area.
Abbreviation in the information is as follows.
[Br/Ne] : Adjacent water of breeding area or nesting site
[Sp] : spawning area
[Ad] : species not used for analysis but add to the list because inhabit information was collected later
[Ex] : species used for analysis but considered to be possibly extinct in the EBSA region (area)
No mark : data of species distribution