📍 M2: Mop End

River: Misbourne Catchment: Colne Filter(s): 57

Your Site at a Glance

254
Species Detected
186
Genera Identified
101
Families Found
674,884
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Misbourne Average Study Average
Species 254 238 206
Genera 186 168 151
Families 101 90 83
EPT Families 9 6 6

Rank 5 of 10 on Misbourne Rank 27 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 124 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 5.4 (Good)

23 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)
61 (24.0%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
30 (11.8%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
7 (2.8%)
4. Cyprinidae (Carp and Allies)
6 (2.4%)
5. Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, and Swans)
6 (2.4%)
6. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
4 (1.6%)
7. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
4 (1.6%)
8. Hydridae (Freshwater Hydras)
4 (1.6%)
9. Limnephilidae (Northern Caddisflies)
4 (1.6%)
10. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
4 (1.6%)
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 ✗
21/33 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

11 fish species detected (4 families, 55 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 8
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Pink Salmon) Salmonidae 7
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Rainbow Trout) Salmonidae 4
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 3
Squalius cephalus (Chub) Cyprinidae 2
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 2
Cyprinus carpio (Common Carp) Cyprinidae 2
Rutilus frisii Cyprinidae 2
Carassius auratus (Goldfish) Cyprinidae 1
Scardinius racovitzai Cyprinidae 1
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

14 EPT species detected (9 families, 30 ESVs — E:5 / P:0 / T:9)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Cloeon dipterum (Pond Olive) Baetidae 6
Serratella ignita (Blue Winged Olive) Ephemerellidae 3
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Baetis vernus (Medium Olive) Baetidae 2
Caenis horaria (Angler's Curse) Caenidae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 4
Drusus annulatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 3
Oxyethira simplex (Microcaddisflies) Hydroptilidae 2
Sericostoma personatum (Sericostomatid Caddisflies) Sericostomatidae 2
Apatania cimbrica (Apataniid Caddisflies) Apataniidae 1
Agapetus fuscipes (Saddle-case Makers) Glossosomatidae 1
Limnephilus extricatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Limnephilus marmoratus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Rhyacophila dorsalis (Free-living Caddisflies) Rhyacophilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: M8 - over the Misbourne
River: Misbourne (same river)
Similarity: 42% of species shared
Download Data

254 Species detected at this site — CSV format, opens in Excel

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