MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 14401 Offshore of Cape Sata
Relevant municipalities | |
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Area (km2) | 83 |
Selected due to high levels for the criteria 1and 4, and selected by MARXAN software.
These are the waters near the sea floor off Cape Sata. Here numerous species of Octocorals (Precious corals) are harvested.
Tidal mud flats (km2) | |
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Coral reef coverage (km2) | |
Natural coast (km) | - |
Rate of natural coast (%) | - |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 1 |
<Octocorallia> |
Acanthogorgia fusca |
Narella irregularis |
Placogorgia placoderma |
Plumarella flabellata |
Thouarella typica |
Villogorgia brunnea |
Criteria 2 |
<Pisces> |
Parapristipoma trilineatum (Chicken grunt)[Sp] |
Engraulis japonicus (Japanese anchovy)[Sp] |
Scomber australasicus (Blue mackerel)[Sp] |
Trichiurus japonicus (Largehead hairtail)[Sp] |
Seriola quinqueradiata (Japanese amberjack)[Sp] |
Trachurus japonicus (Japanese jack mackerel)[Sp] |
Sardinops melanostictus (Japanese pilchard)[Sp] |
Criteria 3 |
<Insecta> |
Cicindela anchoralis |
Criteria 4 |
<Octocorallia> |
Acanthogorgia fusca |
Acis spinifera |
Chrysogorgia arbuscula |
Dendronephthya magnacantha |
Dendronephthya splendens |
Elasmogorgia ramosa |
Fanellia tuberculata |
Melithaea dichotoma |
Muricella reticulata |
Narella irregularis |
Paracis placoderma |
Parisis fruticosa |
Placogorgia japonica |
Placogorgia placoderma |
Plumarella carinata |
Plumarella flabellata |
Siphonogorgia splendens |
Thouarella typica |
Villogorgia brunnea |
* 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