MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 12305 Adjacent waters of Mikura Island
Relevant municipalities | Mikurajima, Tokyo |
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Area (km2) | 75 |
Selected due to high levels for the criteria 7.
These are the waters in the vicinity of Mikura Island. These waters are home to a breeding colony of Japanese murrelet (an IUCN endangered species) (BirdLife International, 2012). In addition, the waters in the shore zone in the vicinity of Mikura Island are important green turtle feeding waters (Morisaka et al , 2011).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 16.9 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 90.8 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 2 |
<Pisces> |
Trachurus japonicus (Japanese jack mackerel)[Sp] |
* 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