MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 15206 Adjacent waters of Cape Sata
Relevant municipalities | Minamiosumi, Kagoshima Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 81 |
Selected due to high levels for the criteria 7
These are the waters in the vicinity of Cape Sata. These waters are green turtle feeding ground (Kamezaki, not yet published), and highly diverse reef shores line Cape Sata (Okuda et al., 2004; Nakaoka et al., 2006).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 0.096 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | 0.1 |
Natural coast (km) | 55.1 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 91.1 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Apus pacificus (Pacific Swift)[Br/Ne] |
Calonectris leucomelas (Streaked Shearwater) |
Calonectris leucomelas (Streaked Shearwater)[Br/Ne] |
Egretta sacra (Pacific Reef-egret)[Br/Ne] |
<Pisces> |
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] |
Pagrus major (Red seabream)[Sp] |
Criteria 3 |
<Insecta> |
Cicindela anchoralis |
Criteria 4 |
<Aves> |
Calonectris leucomelas (Streaked Shearwater) |
* 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