MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 13601 Kasaoka coast
Relevant municipalities | Kasaoka, Asakuchi, Okayama Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 10 |
Selected due to high levels for the criteria 1, 3 and 7, and selected by MARXAN software.
These are the Seto waters in the vicinity of Kasaoka. Kasaoka is a natural monument as a Japanese horseshoe crab breeding ground, and Japanese horseshoe crabs occur in its tidal mud flats ecosystem.
Tidal mud flats (km2) | 1.4 |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 0.3 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 1.5 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 3.2 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 1 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Cyclina sinensis |
Peregrinamor ohshimai |
Solen strictus |
Angustassiminea yoshidayukioi |
Criteria 2 |
<Mamal> |
Neophocaena phocaenoides (Fineless porpoise) |
<Aves> |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern) |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern)[Br/Ne] |
Charadrius dubius (Little Ringed Plover)[Br/Ne] |
Charadrius alexandrinus (Kentish Plover)[Br/Ne] |
<Pisces> |
Takifugu rubripes (Japanese pufferfish)[Sp] |
Pleuronectes yokohamae (Marbled flounder)[Sp] |
<Crustacea, Horseshoe club> |
Tachypleus tridentatus (Horseshoe club) |
<Cephalopoda> |
Octopus vulgaris (Common octopus) |
Criteria 3 |
<Aves> |
Sterna albifrons (Little Tern) |
<Crustacea> |
Uca lactea |
Xenophthalmus pinnotherides |
Macrophthalmus japonicus |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Trigonostoma scalariformis |
Laternula impura |
Paratectonatica tigrina |
Littorina brevicula |
<Vascular Plants> |
Salicornia europaea (Common Glasswort) |
Criteria 7 |
<Crustacea, Horseshoe club> |
Macrophthalmus abbreviatus |
Tachypleus tridentatus (Horseshoe club) |
Uca lactea |
Macrophthalmus japonicus |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Cerithidea rhizophorarum |
Peregrinamor ohshimai |
Atrina lischkeana (Pen shell) |
<Vascular Plants> |
Salicornia europaea (Common Glasswort) |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
Triglochin asiaticum |
Criteria 8 |
<Natural Monuments> |
Spawning grounds of Horseshoe club (Tachypleus tridentatus) |
* 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