MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 13603 Adjacent waters of Matsunaga Bay
Relevant municipalities | Onomichi, Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 12 |
Selected by experts due to endangered species are found.
These are the waters in the vicinity of Matsunaga Bay in Hiroshima Prefecture. In these waters live Gymnogobius cylindricus, mudskippers, and Apocryptodon punctatus (Shigeta et al., not yet published).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | 4.3 |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 0.2 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 1.7 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 4 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern) |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern)[Br/Ne] |
Charadrius dubius (Little Ringed Plover)[Br/Ne] |
Larus saundersi (Saunder's Gull) |
Larus argentatus (European Herring Gull) |
Larus ridibundus (Black-headed Gull) |
<Cephalopoda> |
Octopus vulgaris (Common octopus)[Sp] |
Criteria 3 |
<Aves> |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern) |
Larus saundersi (Saunder's Gull) |
<Vascular Plants> |
Suaeda malacosperma |
Criteria 7 |
<Vascular Plants> |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
Triglochin asiaticum |
Artemisia fukudo |
Suaeda malacosperma |
* 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