500 Important Wetlands in Japan
Tokushima

No.338
Kurozo-shitsugen
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Criteria for selection:1,2

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City:C/Town:T/
Village:V
Wetland type Biota Habitat Reason for selection
Ikeda T Mixed Bogs,
Fens
Wetland
vegetation
Kurozo-shitsugen The plant communities of this mire is designated as a Prefectural Natural Monument. They include Sparganium fallax-S. stenophyllum communities, Sphagnum communities (Sphagnum palustre and S. cuspidatum) and Phragmites communis-Carex dispalata communities.
Insects Kurozo-shitsugen Oligoaeschna pryeri, Aeshna juncea, Somatochlora uchidai, Diplonychus major (the first found in Shikoku) and Mesovelia thermalis (the first found in Shikoku) inhabit this mire, making it a valuable place in Shikoku in terms of insects as well.

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