📍 M3: Shardeloes

River: Misbourne Catchment: Colne Filter(s): 60

Your Site at a Glance

227
Species Detected
154
Genera Identified
76
Families Found
915,032
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Misbourne Average Study Average
Species 227 238 206
Genera 154 168 151
Families 76 90 83
EPT Families 6 6 6

Rank 8 of 10 on Misbourne Rank 38 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 109 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 5.7 (Good)

19 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)
69 (30.4%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
31 (13.7%)
3. Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, and Swans)
12 (5.3%)
4. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
5 (2.2%)
5. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
4 (1.8%)
6. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
4 (1.8%)
7. Hydridae (Freshwater Hydras)
3 (1.3%)
8. Salmonidae (Salmon and Trout)
3 (1.3%)
9. Phalangiidae (Long-legged Harvestmen)
3 (1.3%)
10. Ectopsocidae (Ectopsocid Barklice)
3 (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
17/33 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

7 fish species detected (5 families, 33 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Pink Salmon) Salmonidae 6
Oncorhynchus mykiss (Rainbow Trout) Salmonidae 4
Scardinius racovitzai Cyprinidae 4
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 3
Rutilus frisii Cyprinidae 3
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 2
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 2

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

8 EPT species detected (6 families, 20 ESVs — E:4 / P:0 / T:4)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Caenis horaria (Angler's Curse) Caenidae 6
Cloeon dipterum (Pond Olive) Baetidae 4
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 4
Silo nigricornis (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Limnephilus marmoratus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Sericostoma personatum (Sericostomatid Caddisflies) Sericostomatidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: M4 - Quarrendon Mill
River: Misbourne (same river)
Similarity: 45% of species shared
Download Data

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

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