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Endemic Range

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Quercus miyagii is endemic to the Ryuku Islands of Japan.

bibliographic citation: C.Michael Hogan. 2012. ''Oak. Encyclopedia of Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC ed. Arthur Dawson; ed.in-chief Cutler J.Cleveland
author: C. Michael Hogan (cmichaelhogan)

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Quercus miyagii is a species of oak native to the Ryukyu Islands.^[2] It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.^[3]

A tree typically 12 metres (39 feet) tall, its acorns are consumed by the freshwater crabs Geothelphusa grandiovata and Candidiopotamon okinawense, which gather them and store them in their burrows.^[4]

^ Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 26: 167 (1912)
^ ^a ^b "Quercus miyagii Koidz". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
^ Denk, Thomas; Grimm, Guido W.; Manos, Paul S.; Deng, Min & Hipp, Andrew L. (2017). "Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks" (xls). figshare. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
^ Sasaki, Takeshi; Naruse, Tohru (December 2014). "Acorn–foraging activity and feeding behaviour by two species of freshwater crabs (Brachyura: Potamidae) from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan". Crustacean Research. 43: 31–40. doi:10.18353/crustacea.43.0_31. Retrieved 16 October 2020.

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Quercus miyagii is a species of oak native to the Ryukyu Islands. It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.

A tree typically 12 metres (39 feet) tall, its acorns are consumed by the freshwater crabs Geothelphusa grandiovata and Candidiopotamon okinawense, which gather them and store them in their burrows.