City:C/Town:T/
Village:V |
Wetland type
|
Biota
|
Habitat
|
Reason for selection
|
| Yonaguni T |
Rivers,
Other wetlands |
Insects |
Vicinity of Higawa and Tarumai-shitsugen |
Located at the back of the Kataburu-hama beach,
this wetland extends approximately 1km from east to west and supports
many aquatic and semi-aquatic insects including dragonflies. It
also supports unique insects including Hemiptera species
such as Laccotrephes maculatus, and a species parasitic on
hygrophytes. |
Freshwater
shellfish |
Springs in
Higawa |
Habitat of Oncomelania formasa and Stenothyra
basiangulata (both classified as Vulnerable (VU)), and Pisidium
spp. |
| Insects |
Tabaru-gawa and Sonai in Yonaguni-jima |
Habitat of Pseudagrion microcephalum. Tenagogonus
femorata, classified as Vulnerable (VU), is found on the peripheral
part of Sonai. There is a record of Lethocerus indicus, an
RDB species of Okinawa Prefecture, caught in this site. |
Freshwater
shellfish |
Tabaru-gawa |
Habitat of Stenomelania juncea and S.
uniformis (both classified as Endangered(EN) or Critically Endangered(CR)),
and Clithon spp. |
Reptiles and
amphibians |
Wetlands and rivers in Kubura-dake |
Habitat of Elaphe carinata yonaguniensis
(endemic subspecies of Japan) and Calamaria pavimentata miyarai
(endemic subspecies of Japan). |
