MOE home > Nature and Parks > EBSA home > Coastal Area > 21401 Yoron Island
Relevant municipalities | Yoron, Kagoshima Prefecture |
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Area (km2) | 55 |
Selected due to high levels for the criteria 6, and selected by MARXAN software.
These are the waters in the vicinity of Yoron Island (the southernmost island in the Amami Islands chain). The island is surrounded by coral reefs.
Tidal mud flats (km2) | |
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Moba (seaweed bed) (km2) | |
Coral reef coverage (km2) | 9.4 |
Natural coast (km) | 21.7 |
Rate of natural coast (%) | 80 |
Sand bank / submerged sand bank | |
Other habitats |
Criteria 2 |
<Aves> |
Monticola solitarius (Blue Rock-thrush)[Br/Ne] |
Egretta sacra (Pacific Reef-egret)[Br/Ne] |
Criteria 3 |
<Hexacorallia> |
Acropora echinata |
Criteria 4 |
<Octocorallia> |
Isis hippuris |
Menella praelonga |
Criteria 7 |
<Bivalva, Gastropoda> |
Truncatella pfeifferi |
* 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