MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 13706 Western Suo-Oshima Island
Relevant municipalities | Suo-Oshima, Yanai, Yamaguchi Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 29 |
Selected by MARXAN software.
These are the waters on the west side of Suo-Oshima Island in the town of Suo-Oshima, Oshima-gun.
In these waters unfold eel grass beds and seaweed beds, with a mixture of beds of eel grass, sargassum, Ecklonia kurome, and others, and the sea extending in front of the coast here is rich in biodiversity (Ministry of the Environment, 2001).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | 0.2 |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 0.7 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 7.2 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 22.6 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | Sand bank/ submerged sand bank |
Other habitats | Sand bank/ submerged sand bank |
Criteria 1 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Angustassiminea castanea |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern) |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern)[Br/Ne] |
<Pisces> |
Ammodytes personatus (Japanese sand lance)[Sp] |
Pagrus major (Red seabream)[Sp] |
<Cephalopoda> |
Octopus vulgaris (Common octopus) |
Criteria 3 |
<Aves> |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern) |
<Vascular Plants> |
Suaeda malacosperma |
Criteria 7 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Truncatella pfeifferi |
<Vascular Plants> |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
Suaeda malacosperma |
Artemisia fukudo |
* 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