MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 13801 Adjacent waters of Mugi, Tebajima, and Oshima islands
Relevant municipalities | Kaiyo, Mugi, Tokushima Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 62 |
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These waters include the coasts of the towns of Kaiyo and Mugi as well as Teba, Tsushima, Oshima, and other islands in Tokushima Prefecture. Coral species are distributed along the coast in the vicinity of Mugi and Oshima, where rare species live (Ministry of the Environment, 2001). Teba Island has a brackish lagoon near the coast, where sea water flows in and the endangered and protected species Lamprothamnium succinctum grows naturally. Lamprothamnium succinctum is a member of the family Characeae, of which it is the only known species in Japan. It grows naturally only on Teba Island (Database of nationally designated cultural properties; Ministry of the Environment, 2001). These waters also are an important feeding ground for the green turtle (Kamezaki et al., 2013; Ishihara et al., 2011).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 4.5 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 52.5 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 71.8 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 1 |
<Pisces> |
Lates japonicus (Japanese lates) |
Cottus kazika (Fourspine sculpin) |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Stenomelania rufescens |
Corbicula japonica |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Apus pacificus (Pacific Swift)[Br/Ne] |
Monticola solitarius (Blue Rock-thrush)[Br/Ne] |
Egretta sacra (Pacific Reef-egret)[Br/Ne] |
Charadrius dubius (Little Ringed Plover)[Br/Ne] |
Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)[Br/Ne] |
<Pisces> |
Parapristipoma trilineatum (Chicken grunt)[Sp] |
Engraulis japonicus (Japanese anchovy)[Sp] |
Seriola quinqueradiata (Japanese amberjack)[Sp] |
Trachurus japonicus (Japanese jack mackerel)[Sp] |
Sardinops melanostictus (Japanese pilchard)[Sp] |
<Cephalopoda> |
Sepioteuthis lessoniana (Bigfin Reef Squid) |
Criteria 3 |
<Pisces> |
Lates japonicus (Japanese lates) |
Cottus kazika (Fourspine sculpin) |
<Insecta> |
Cicindela inspecularis[Ex] |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Stenomelania rufescens |
Criteria 7 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Stenomelania rufescens |
Corbicula japonica |
<Vascular Plants> |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
Triglochin asiaticum |
Criteria 8 |
<Natural Monuments> |
Habitat of Lamprothamnium succinctum in Debajima-oike <Debajima-oike no shiratamamo jiseichi (in Japanese)> |
* 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