MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 15501 Goto Islands
Relevant municipalities | Goto, Sasebo, Ojika, Shinkamigoto, Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 1459 |
Selected due to high levels for the criteria1, 2, 4 and 7, and selected by MARXAN software.
These are the waters in the vicinity of the Goto Islands (including Ukujima, Ojika, and other islands). The Goto Islands are an archipelago of more than 140 islands of varying sizes, with a ria coastal geology that is rich in complex variations, including natural beaches, sea cliffs, volcanic features. It is home to a wealth of natural scenery. Ohama on northeastern Ukujima Island includes highly natural sand dunes and sandy beaches and is a treasure trove of valuable flora and fauna. It is particularly worth noting that this area includes habitat of Cicindela laetescripta, Cicindela sumatrensis, big-headed ground beetle, Schiodtella japonica and others. The shells washed ashore here also are extremely diverse. The sands on the land side of Sugehama form the only habitat in the prefecture for Pupilla cryptodon, a shellfish thought to be a continental relict, and the insect Aphanisticus congener. Sand dunes are home to Lithospermum zollingeri and Asparagus kiusianus. Cape Nagasakibana is an important feeding grounds for migrating snipe and plover, and Zoysia matrella and Messerschmidia sibirica grow at the shore (Sasebo city, 2013). Shiraragahama Bay at Miiraku on Fukue Island is a gently shelving shallow inland bay, rich in creatures of tidal mud flats such as common Orient clam (Kato, personal communication). Tsutara, Kuroshima, and Oshima islands, extending from the south of Fukue Island to its southeast, are an important habitat for reef-building coral in western Kyushu, including Acropora hyacinthus, Acropora formosa, and Acropora solitaryensis. They also are located at the northern limit of Acropora hyacinthus and Acropora Formosa habitat (Sugihara et al., 2009; Yamano et al., 2011).
Tidal mud flats (km2) | 2.5 |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | 45.8 |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | 0.2 |
Natural coast (km) | 992.1 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 79.4 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 1 |
<Pisces> |
Astrabe flavimaculata |
Clariger exilis |
Luciogobius albus |
Lateolabrax latus (Blackfin seabass) |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Angustassiminea castanea |
Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica |
Corbicula japonica |
<Other invertebrate> |
Synhalcurias elegans |
Actinauge bocki |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Apus pacificus (Pacific Swift)[Br/Ne] |
Monticola solitarius (Blue Rock-thrush)[Br/Ne] |
Sula leucogaster (Brown Booby) |
Sula leucogaster (Brown Booby)[Br/Ne] |
Egretta sacra (Pacific Reef-egret)[Br/Ne] |
Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon)[Br/Ne] |
Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)[Br/Ne] |
<Pisces> |
Branchiostegus japonicus (Horsehead tilefish)[Sp] |
Engraulis japonicus (Japanese anchovy)[Sp] |
Trichiurus japonicus (Largehead hairtail)[Sp] |
Paralichthys olivaceus (Bastard halibut)[Sp] |
Seriola quinqueradiata (Japanese amberjack)[Sp] |
Trachurus japonicus (Japanese jack mackerel)[Sp] |
Sardinops melanostictus (Japanese pilchard)[Sp] |
Scomber japonicus (Chub mackerel)[Sp] |
Pagrus major (Red seabream)[Sp] |
<Cephalopoda> |
Sepioteuthis lessoniana (Bigfin Reef Squid) |
Loligo edulis (Swordtip squid) |
Todarodes pacificus (Japanese flying squid) |
Criteria 3 |
<Pisces> |
Anguilla japonica (Japanese eel) |
Luciogobius albus |
<Insecta> |
Cicindela lewisi |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Ellobium chinense |
Melampus sincaporensis |
Stenothyra japonica |
<Vascular Plants> |
Suaeda malacosperma |
Criteria 4 |
<Octocorallia> |
Calyptrophora japonica |
Echinomuricea peterseni |
Eleutherobia flava |
Filigella mitsukuri |
Funiculina quadrangularis |
Keoeides koreni |
Parisis fruticosa |
Parisis minor |
Plumarella adhaerens |
Plumarella carinata |
Thouarella hilgendorfi |
Criteria 7 |
<Pisces> |
Luciogobius pallidus |
Luciogobius albus |
Luciogobius guttatus (Flat-headed goby) |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Clithon sowerbianus |
Truncatella pfeifferi |
Corbicula japonica |
<Vascular Plants> |
Aster tripolium (Sea aster) |
Triglochin asiaticum |
Suaeda malacosperma |
* 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