MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 13709 Adjacent waters of Otsushima and Kasadojima islands
Relevant municipalities | Kudamatsu, Hikari, Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 127 |
Selected by MARXAN software.
These waters extend from Otsushima and Kurokami Islands to Kasadojima Island in Yamaguchi Prefecture and include numerous small islands. The coasts are lined with sandy beaches and pebble beaches, interspersed with eel grass beds and seaweed beds.
Tidal mud flats (km2) | 0.135 |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 1.3 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | 59.9 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 59.8 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 1 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Peregrinamor ohshimai |
Angustassiminea yoshidayukioi |
Criteria 2 |
<Mamal> |
Neophocaena phocaenoides (Fineless porpoise) |
<Pisces> |
Ammodytes personatus (Japanese sand lance)[Sp] |
Engraulis japonicus (Japanese anchovy)[Sp] |
<Cephalopoda> |
Octopus vulgaris (Common octopus) |
Criteria 3 |
<Crustacea> |
Helice (Helice) tridens |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Melampus sincaporensis |
Laemodonta siamensis |
Littorina brevicula |
Criteria 7 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Cerithidea rhizophorarum |
Peregrinamor ohshimai |
Moerella rutila |
<Other invertebrate> |
Balanoglossus carnosus |
<Vascular Plants> |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
* 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