📍 C6: Chenies

River: Chess Catchment: Colne Filter(s): 43

Your Site at a Glance

301
Species Detected
213
Genera Identified
119
Families Found
663,031
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Chess Average Study Average
Species 301 197 206
Genera 213 146 151
Families 119 84 83
EPT Families 8 6 6

Rank 1 of 10 on Chess Rank 7 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 142 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 5.7 (Good)

25 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Clean water with slight impacts; a healthy community of macroinvertebrate families is present.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
60 (19.9%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
39 (13.0%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
10 (3.3%)
4. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
6 (2.0%)
5. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
5 (1.7%)
6. Isotomidae (Isotomid Springtails)
4 (1.3%)
7. Muscidae (House Flies)
4 (1.3%)
8. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
4 (1.3%)
9. Salmonidae (Salmon and Trout)
4 (1.3%)
10. Gasterosteidae (Sticklebacks)
4 (1.3%)
Taxonomic composition

🪲 Extended Riverfly Taxa

1 Flatworms 18Dragonflies and Damselflies
2 Freshwater Snails 19Water Boatmen
3 Limpets 20Other Water Bugs
4 Bivalves 21Water Beetles
5 Aquatic Worms 22Alderflies
6 Leeches 23Caseless Caddisflies - Green Sedge
7 Crayfish 24Caseless Caddisflies - Net Spinners
8 Water Hoglouse 25Caseless Caddisflies - Non-Gilled
9 Freshwater Shrimps 26Cased Caddisflies - Hood Case-Maker
10 Invasive Non-Native Shrimps 27Cased Caddisflies - Weighted Case-Maker
11 Mayflies - Angler's Curse 28Cased Caddisflies - Bush Tailed Caddisfly
12 Mayflies - Olives 29Cased Caddisflies - Other
13 Mayflies - Prong Gilled 30Craneflies
14 Mayflies - Flatbodied 31Blackflies
15 Mayflies - Green Drake 32Non-Biting Midges
16 Mayflies - Blue-Winged Olive 33Water Snipe Flies
17 Stoneflies
22/33 Extended Riverfly taxa detected

Note: The Extended Riverfly Monitoring Initiative calculates scores based on abundance categories, which cannot be determined from eDNA presence/absence data. This checklist shows which taxa groups were detected but does not constitute an official ARMI score.

🐟 Fish Species

9 fish species detected (5 families, 58 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 9
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 6
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 5
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 5
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 3
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Pink Salmon) Salmonidae 2
Gobio gobio (Gudgeon) Cyprinidae 1
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Rainbow Trout) Salmonidae 1
Thymallus aeliani Salmonidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

12 EPT species detected (8 families, 27 ESVs — E:7 / P:1 / T:4)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Baetis vernus (Medium Olive) Baetidae 8
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Cloeon dipterum (Pond Olive) Baetidae 2
Serratella ignita (Blue Winged Olive) Ephemerellidae 2
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 2
Ephemera danica (The Mayfly) Ephemeridae 1
Ephemera vulgata (Drake Mackerel) Ephemeridae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Nemurella pictetii (Pictet's Stonefly) Nemouridae 2
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 3
Athripsodes albifrons (Long-horned Caddisflies) Leptoceridae 2
Silo nigricornis (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Chaetopteryx villosa (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: C8 - Loudwater (trout rise)
River: Chess (same river)
Similarity: 44% of species shared
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