500 Important Wetlands in Japan
Niigata

No.189
Fukushimagata and Hyo-ko
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Criteria for selection:2,4
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City:C/Town:T/
Village:V
Wetland type Biota Habitat Reason for selection
Toyosaka C,
Suibara T
Lakes and
marshes
Wetland
vegetation
Fukushimagata Communities of Phragmites communis and Zizania latifolia. Northernmost habitat of naturally occurring Euryale ferox.
Geese and
ducks
Fukushimagata
and Hyo-ko
Wintering sites of Cygnus columbianus and Anser fabalis middendorffii.
Freshwater
fish
Habitats of Tribolodon
species in Shinano-gawa,
Agano-gawa and
Fukushima-gata
Habitat of Tribolodon sp.

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