1.1.7.2 Terrestrial species and communities


1.1.7.2.1 Principal vegetation types and distribution patterns

According to the NVIS v4.1 data (Australian Government Department of the Environment, Dataset 3), saltbush and/or bluebush shrublands is the most widespread terrestrial NVIS v4.1 major vegetation subgroup in the Cooper subregion (22.3% by area, occurring primarily in the western half of the subregion), followed by Mitchell grass (Astrebla) tussock grasslands (15.4%, primarily in the central and northern parts of the subregion), Hummock grasslands (11.3%) and Mulga (Acacia aneura) open woodlands and sparse shrublands (10.6%). Eleven other vegetation subgroups each cover 1 to 10% of the subregion (130,000 to 1,300,000 ha each) and 19 vegetation subgroups (excluding ‘No data’) each cover less than 1% of the subregion (<130,000 ha each) (Table 10).

At smaller-scale mapping, these vegetation subgroups have been delineated as discrete communities that respond to drainage patterns, topographic and edaphic variation. However, in larger-scale mapping, vegetation type mosaics have been identified, causing more homogeneous interpretation of the NVIS classification and thus causing difficulty in harmonising the vegetation mapping across state borders (Figure 34). The consequence of this scale issue is that major boundaries between vegetation subgroups occur along state borders, when there are no corresponding boundaries in terms of surface geology, soils or drainage patterns. For example, east of Moomba, saltbush and/or bluebush shrublands in SA (the most common NVIS vegetation subgroup in the subregion) abut Hummock grasslands in Queensland (the third most common NVIS in the subregion). Furthermore, a complex of vegetation subgroups along Cooper Creek and its floodplains in Queensland are not mapped across the border into SA. Due to this difference in the scale of mapping across state borders it not possible to develop relative abundance of NVIS major vegetation subgroups as terrestrial ecological context for the Cooper subregion as a whole.

1.1.7.2.2 Recent change and trend

Very early in the Euro-Australian settlement of central and western Queensland, the Eucalyptus open woodlands with a grassy understorey (along Cooper Creek and major tributaries), the Mitchell grass (Astrebla) tussock grasslands (on cracking clay soils) and all other tussock grasslands and wetlands were recognised as vegetation types with a combination of plant growth and palatability characteristics that would yield high livestock productivity under pastoral grazing systems (Orr and Holmes, 1984; Burrows et al., 1988). After more than a century of extensive cattle grazing, the bulk of these vegetation types in the Cooper subregion are now classed as ‘modified’ or ‘transformed’, according to the Vegetation Assets, States and Transitions (VAST) classification of Thackway and Lesslie (2005). In this classification, ‘modified’ and ‘transformed’ mean that the dominant structuring native species are present, but their levels of dominance have been significantly altered, and their natural regenerative capacity is limited or at risk under past and/or current land use or land management practice. Adventive, exotic plant species may be present or common, but are only co-dominant in the understorey where the vegetation is ‘transformed’. Remote and unpalatable vegetation types, such as Hummock grasslands (on desert dune fields), are the only vegetation types in the Cooper subregion that retain their original or ‘residual’ status according to the VAST classification.

As part of Queensland activities for the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS), Bastin et al. (2014) have recently completed an analysis of trend in condition of the non-woody component of the native terrestrial vegetation across Queensland’s rangelands, including the north-eastern part of the Cooper subregion. Using multi-temporal remote sensing data and analyses based on landscape heterogeneity and functionality, Bastin et al. report that the three IBRA subregions that partly lie within the Cooper subregion showed approximately stable to slightly improving range condition over the period 1988 to either 2003 or 2005 (depending on drought sequences).

1.1.7.2.3 Species and ecological communities of national significance

Table 12 lists species of national significance listed under the Commonwealth’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act) that are known to occur in the Cooper subregion through specimens or human observations, or for which their occurrence is likely based upon analysis of the distribution of suitable habitat. All but one of those species can be identified as having low or no water dependence in the sense of the BA methodology (Barrett et al., 2013) and thus can be considered terrestrial.

There are no EPBC-listed terrestrial ecological communities within, or near, the Cooper subregion.

1.1.7.2.4 Species of regional significance

Table 13 lists taxa of regional significance under Queensland’s Nature Conservation Act 1992. There are 45 taxa that occur in the Cooper subregion but are not also listed nationally.

Table 14 lists the 48 taxa of regional significance under NSW’s Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.

Table 15 lists the taxa (including some subspecies) of regional significance under SA’s National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. There are 82 taxa that occur in the Cooper subregion but are not also listed nationally. Fifty-three of those species can be identified as having low or no water dependence in the sense of the BA methodology (Barrett et al., 2013) and thus can be considered terrestrial.

Table 12 Species and ecological communities in the Cooper subregion that are listed as threatened nationally under the Commonwealth’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)


Biodiversity asset group

Scientific name

Common name

Status under the EPBC Act

Occur-rence in subregion

Endemi-city in subregion

Water depend-ence

Comments on water dependence

Plants

Acacia peuce

Waddy, Waddi, Waddy-wood, Birdsville wattle

Vulnerable

Likely

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Frankenia plicata

Endangered

Known

Low

Moderate

Drainage lines

Grevillea kennedyana

Flame spiderflower

Vulnerable

Likely

High

Moderate

No specific mention of water dependence

Hakea maconochieana

Vulnerable

Likely

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Xerothamnella parvifolia

Vulnerable

Likely

High

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Reptiles

Acanthophis hawkei

Plains Death Adder

Vulnerable

Known

Low

Low

Treeless floodplain, habitat that is favoured by its prey (frogs)

Egernia rugosa

Yakka skink

Vulnerable

Maybe

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Birds

Amytornis barbatus barbatus

Grey grasswren (bulloo)

Vulnerable

Known

High

High

Swampy floodplains

Amytornis modestus

Thickbilled grasswren

Vulnerable

Likely

Low

Low

May favour drainage lines, but not exclusively

Erythrotriorchis radiatus

Red goshawk

Vulnerable

Maybe

Low

Moderate

Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda

Star finch (eastern), star finch (southern)

Endangered

Likely

Low

Moderate

Grasslands and grassy woodlands that are located close to bodies of fresh water

Pedionomus torquatus

Plains-wanderer

Vulnerable

Likely

Moderate

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Rostratula benghalensis (sensu lato)

Painted snipe

Endangered, migratory

Likely

Low

High

Shallow terrestrial freshwater (occasionally brackish) wetlands

Mammals

Dasyuroides byrnei

Kowari

Vulnerable

Likely

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Macrotis lagotis

Greater bilby

Vulnerable

Likely

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Notomys fuscus

Dusky Hopping-mouse, Wilkiniti

Vulnerable

Likely

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Pseudomys australis

Plains rat, Palyoora

Vulnerable

May

Low

Low

Gypseous cracking clay areas associated with minor drainage features

Sminthopsis douglasi

Julia Creek dunnart

Endangered

Known

Low

Low

No specific mention of water dependence

Data: Department of the Environment (2014d)

Source database includes comments on water dependence

Table 13 Species in the Queensland part of the Cooper subregion (Shires of Barcoo, Bulloo and Quilpie, and parts of Shires of Diamantina and Longreach) that are listed as threatened under Queensland‘s Nature Conservation Act 1992 and Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006 (updated to 27 September 2013), and under the Commonwealth’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)


Biodiversity asset type

Family

Scientific name

Common name

Status under Queensland’s legislation

Status under the EPBC Act

Water dependent

(aquatic)

Plants

Acanthaceae

Rhaphidospora bonneyana

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Acanthaceae

Xerothamnella parvifolia

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Amaranthaceae

Ptilotus brachyanthus

Endangered

Amaranthaceae

Ptilotus maconochiei

Near threatened

Amaranthaceae

Ptilotus pseudohelipteroides

Near threatened

Araliaceae

Hydrocotyle dipleura

Vulnerable

Yes

Asteraceae

Calocephalus sp. (Eulo M.E.Ballingall MEB2590)

Near threatened

Asteraceae

Calotis suffruticosa

Near threatened

Asteraceae

Rhodanthe rufescens

Near threatened

Byttneriaceae

Commersonia salviifolia

Near threatened

Chenopodiaceae

Atriplex lobativalvis

Near threatened

Chenopodiaceae

Atriplex morrisii

Vulnerable

Chenopodiaceae

Sclerolaena blackiana

Black's copperburr

Near threatened

Chenopodiaceae

Sclerolaena walkeri

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Cucurbitaceae

Austrobryonia argillicola

Endangered

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbia sarcostemmoides

Climbing caustic

Vulnerable

Fabaceae

Indigofera oxyrachis

Vulnerable

Goodeniaceae

Goodenia angustifolia

Near threatened

Mimosaceae

Acacia ammophila

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Mimosaceae

Acacia peuce

Waddy

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Mimosaceae

Acacia spania

Near threatened

Myoporaceae

Eremophila tetraptera

Vulnerable

Myrtaceae

Melaleuca kunzeoides

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Myrtaceae

Micromyrtus rotundifolia

Vulnerable

Myrtaceae

Thryptomene hexandra

Near threatened

Proteaceae

Grevillea kennedyana

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Proteaceae

Hakea maconochieana

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Scrophulariaceae

Elacholoma hornii

Near threatened

Scrophulariaceae

Rhamphicarpa australiensis

Near threatened

Amphibians

Hylidae

Cyclorana verrucosa

Rough-collared frog

Near threatened

Yes

Reptiles

Boidae

Aspidites ramsayi

Woma

Near threatened

Diplodactylidae

Strophurus taenicauda

Golden-tailed gecko

Near threatened

Elapidae

Acanthophis antarcticus

Common death adder

Near threatened

Elapidae

Oxyuranus microlepidotus

Western taipan

Near threatened

Pygopodidae

Paradelma orientalis

Brigalow scaly-foot

Vulnerable

Scincidae

Ctenotus ariadnae

Near threatened

Scincidae

Ctenotus septenarius

Near threatened

Scincidae

Ctenotus serotinus

Near threatened

Scincidae

Egernia rugosa

Yakka skink

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Birds

Acanthizidae

Pyrrholaemus brunneus

Redthroat

Near threatened

Accipitridae

Accipiter novaehollandiae

Grey goshawk

Near threatened

Accipitridae

Erythrotriorchis radiatus

Red goshawk

Endangered

Vulnerable

Accipitridae

Lophoictinia isura

Square-tailed kite

Near threatened

Anatidae

Stictonetta naevosa

Freckled duck

Near threatened

Cacatuidae

Calyptorhynchus lathami

Glossy black-cockatoo

Vulnerable

Cacatuidae

Lophochroa leadbeateri

Major Mitchell's cockatoo

Vulnerable

Ciconiidae

Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus

Black-necked stork

Near threatened

Columbidae

Geophaps scripta scripta

Squatter pigeon (southern subspecies)

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Yes

Falconidae

Falco hypoleucos

Grey falcon

Near threatened

Maluridae

Amytornis barbatus

Grey grasswren

Near threatened

Maluridae

Amytornis striatus

Striated grasswren

Near threatened

Meliphagidae

Epthianura crocea

Yellow chat

Vulnerable

Meliphagidae

Grantiella picta

Painted honeyeater

Vulnerable

Meliphagidae

Melithreptus gularis

Black-chinned honeyeater

Near threatened

Pedionomidae

Pedionomus torquatus

Plains-wanderer

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Psittacidae

Pezoporus occidentalis

Night parrot

Endangered

Endangered

Rostratulidae

Rostratula australis

Australian painted snipe

Vulnerable

Endangered

Yes

Mammals

Dasyuridae

Dasycercus blythi

Brush-tailed mulgara

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Dasyuridae

Dasycercus cristicauda

Crest-tailed mulgara

Vulnerable

Endangered

Dasyuridae

Dasyuroides byrnei

Kowari

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Macropodidae

Onychogalea fraenata

Bridled nailtail wallaby

Endangered

Endangered

Megadermatidae

Macroderma gigas

Ghost bat

Vulnerable

Muridae

Notomys fuscus

Dusky hopping-mouse

Endangered

Vulnerable

Muridae

Pseudomys australis

Plains rat

Endangered

Vulnerable

Peramelidae

Macrotis lagotis

Greater bilby

Endangered

Vulnerable

Vespertilionidae

Chalinolobus picatus

Little pied bat

Near threatened

Data: DSITIA (Dataset 16, Dataset 17)

Source database does not include comments on water dependence, but a preliminary comment on water dependence is included here for consistency with Table 12.

Table 14 Species in the NSW part of the Cooper subregion (Strzelecki Desert subregion of the West Dunefields Catchment Management Authority) that are listed as threatened under NSW’s Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995


Biodiversity asset type

Scientific name

Common name

Status under NSW legislation

Distribution in Strzelecki Desert subregion

Water dependent (aquatic)

Plants

Acacia carneorum

Purple-wood wattle

Vulnerable

Known

Atriplex infrequens

A saltbush

Vulnerable

Predicted

Crotalaria cunninghamii

Green bird flower

Endangered

Known

Dipteracanthus australasicus orynothecus

Endangered

Known

Dysphania platycarpa

Endangered

Predicted

Glinus orygioides

Presumed extinct

Known

Grevillea kennedyana

Flame spider flower

Vulnerable

Known

Ipomoea polymorpha

Silky cow-vine

Endangered

Known

Kippistia suaedifolia

Fleshy minuria

Endangered

Known

Osteocarpum pentapterum

Presumed extinct

Known

Polycarpaea spirostylis glabra

Endangered

Predicted

Scaevola collaris

Fan flower

Endangered

Predicted

Stackhousia clementii

Endangered

Known

Reptiles

Aspidites ramsayi

Woma

Vulnerable

Predicted

Ctenophorus decresii

Tawny crevice-dragon

Endangered

Predicted

Ctenotus brooksi

Wedge-snout ctenotus

Vulnerable

Known

Ctenotus pantherinus ocellifer

Leopard ctenotus

Endangered

Predicted

Cyclodomorphus venustus

Endangered

Predicted

Demansia torquata

Collared whip snake

Vulnerable

Known

Diplodactylus conspicillatus

Fat-tailed diplodactylus

Endangered

Predicted

Lerista xanthura

Yellow-tailed plain slider

Vulnerable

Known

Lucasium stenodactylum

Crowned gecko

Vulnerable

Known

Ramphotyphlops endoterus

Interior blind snake

Endangered

Known

Simoselaps fasciolatus

Narrow-banded snake

Vulnerable

Known

Tiliqua multifasciata

Centralian blue-tongued lizard

Vulnerable

Known

Birds

Ardeotis australis

Australian bustard

Endangered

Known

Certhionyx variegatus

Pied honeyeater

Vulnerable

Known

Circus assimilis

Spotted harrier

Vulnerable

Known

Climacteris picumnus victoriae

Brown treecreeper (eastern subspecies)

Vulnerable

Known

Epthianura albifrons

White-fronted chat

Vulnerable

Known

Falco hypoleucos

Grey falcon

Endangered

Known

Falco subniger

Black falcon

Vulnerable

Known

Grantiella picta

Painted honeyeater

Vulnerable

Predicted

Grus rubicunda

Brolga

Vulnerable

Known

Hamirostra melanosternon

Black-breasted buzzard

Vulnerable

Known

Hieraaetus morphnoides

Little eagle

Vulnerable

Known

Limosa limosa

Black-tailed godwit

Vulnerable

Known

Yes

Melanodryas cucullata cucullata

Hooded robin (south-eastern form)

Vulnerable

Known

Oxyura australis

Blue-billed duck

Vulnerable

Known

Yes

Pedionomus torquatus

Plains-wanderer

Endangered

Predicted

Pomatostomus halli

Hall's babbler

Vulnerable

Predicted

Pyrrholaemus brunneus

Redthroat

Vulnerable

Known

Stictonetta naevosa

Freckled duck

Vulnerable

Known

Yes

Mammals

Antechinomys laniger

Kultarr

Endangered

Known

Chaeropus ecaudatus

Pig-footed bandicoot

Presumed extinct

Known

Chalinolobus picatus

Little pied bat

Vulnerable

Predicted

Saccolaimus flaviventris

Yellow-bellied sheathtail-bat

Vulnerable

Known

Sminthopsis macroura

Stripe-faced dunnart

Vulnerable

Known

Data: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (Dataset 18). Source database does not include comments on water dependence, but a preliminary comment on water dependence is included here for consistency with Table 12.

Table 15 Species in the South Australian part of the Cooper subregion (Coongie, Sturt Stony Desert, Lake Pure and Strzelecki Desert IBRA subregions) that are listed as threatened under SA’s National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972, including their threat status in the South Australian Outback region as assessed by Gillam and Urban (2013)


Biodiversity asset type

Scientific name

Common name

Status under the EPBC Act

Status under South Australian legislation

Status in the Outback region of SA

Trend in the Outback region of SA

Water dependent (aquatic)

Plants

Acacia carneorum

Needle wattle

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Acacia georginae

Georgina gidgee

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Acacia pickardii

Pickard's wattle

Vulnerable

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Acacia tenuissima

Slender wattle

Rare

Rare

-

Atriplex eichleri

Eichler's saltbush

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Atriplex papillata

Coral saltbush

Endangered

Vulnerable

-

Bergia occultipetala

Vulnerable

Near threatened

No trend detected

Calandrinia stagnensis

Rare

Rare

-

Callitriche sonderi

Matted water starwort

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Yes

Cyperus bifax

Downs flat-sedge

Rare

Rare

-

Yes

Cyperus concinnus

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Cyperus dactylotes

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Yes

Cyperus nervulosus

Rare

Near threatened

-

Yes

Eleocharis plana

Flat spike-rush

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Eragrostis lacunaria

Purple love-grass

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Eremophila polyclada

Twiggy emubush

Rare

Vulnerable

-

Frankenia cupularis

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Frankenia plicata

Endangered

Vulnerable

-

Gilesia biniflora

Western tar-vine

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Malacocera gracilis

Slender soft-horns

Vulnerable

Rare

No trend detected

Mimulus prostratus

Small monkey-flower

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Yes

Neurachne lanigera

Woolly mulga-grass

Rare

Vulnerable

Decline

Nymphoides crenata

Wavy marshwort

Rare

Endangered

Decline

Yes

Ophioglossum polyphyllum

Large adder's-tongue

Rare

Rare

-

Maybe

Orobanche cernua var. australiana

Australian broomrape

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum

Wingless bonefruit

Rare

Rare

-

Osteocarpum pentapterum

Five-wing bonefruit

Endangered

Vulnerable

Decline

Phlegmatospermum eremaeum

Spreading cress

Rare

-

Pimelea penicillaris

Sandhill riceflower

Rare

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Sauropus ramosissimus

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Sclerolaena blackiana

Black's bindyi

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Stylidium desertorum

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Swainsona oligophylla

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Zygophyllum humillimum

Small-fruit twinleaf

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Amphibians

Cyclorana cultripes

Knife-footed frog

Rare

Rare

-

Yes

Uperoleia capitulata

Small-headed toadlet

Rare

Rare

-

Yes

Reptiles

Aspidites ramsayi

Woma

Rare

Near threatened

No trend detected

Ctenotus astarte

Ashy downs ctenotus

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Ctenotus joanae

Blacksoil ctenotus

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Demansia rimicola

Channel country whipsnake

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Emydura macquarii

Macquarie tortoise

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Yes

Morelia spilota

Carpet python

Rare

Rare

Decline

Proablepharus kinghorni

Blacksoil skink

Rare

Rare

-

Birds

Actitis hypoleucos

Common sandpiper

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Amytornis barbatus

Grey grasswren

Vulnerable

Rare

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Anas rhynchotis

Australasian shoveler

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Anhinga novaehollandiae

Australasian darter

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Anseranas semipalmata

Magpie goose

Endangered

Endangered

-

Yes

Aprosmictus erythropterus

Red-winged parrot

Rare

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Ardea intermedia

Intermediate egret

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Ardeotis australis

Australian bustard

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Biziura lobata

Musk duck

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Burhinus grallarius

Bush stone-curlew

Rare

Critically endangered

Decline

Cacatua leadbeateri

Major Mitchell's cockatoo

Rare

Endangered

Decline

Calidris subminuta

Long-toed stint

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Cladorhynchus leucocephalus

Banded stilt

Vulnerable

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Conopophila whitei

Grey honeyeater

Rare

Endangered

-

Egretta garzetta

Little egret

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Elanus scriptus

Letter-winged kite

Rare

Vulnerable

Decline

Epthianura crocea

Yellow chat

Endangered

Endangered

Decline

Falco hypoleucos

Grey falcon

Rare

Endangered

Decline

Falco peregrinus

Peregrine falcon

Rare

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Gallinago hardwickii

Latham's snipe

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Geophaps plumifera

Spinifex pigeon

Rare

Vulnerable

Decline

Grantiella picta

Painted honeyeater

Rare

Endangered

-

Grus rubicunda

Brolga

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Hamirostra melanosternon

Black-breasted buzzard

Rare

Rare

Decline

Limosa limosa

Black-tailed godwit

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Lophoictinia isura

Square-tailed kite

Endangered

Endangered

-

Melithreptus gularis laetior

Golden-backed honeyeater

Rare

Endangered

-

Myiagra inquieta

Restless flycatcher

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Neophema chrysostoma

Blue-winged parrot

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Ninox connivens

Barking owl

Rare

Endangered

No trend detected

Oxyura australis

Blue-billed duck

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Pedionomus torquatus

Plains-wanderer

Vulnerable

Endangered

Endangered

-

Pezoporus occidentalis

Night parrot

Endangered

Endangered

Critically endangered

-

Phaps histrionica

Flock bronzewing

Rare

Rare

Increase

Plegadis falcinellus

Glossy ibis

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Podiceps cristatus

Great crested grebe

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Porzana tabuensis

Spotless crake

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Stictonetta naevosa

Freckled duck

Vulnerable

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Tringa glareola

Wood sandpiper

Rare

Rare

No trend detected

Yes

Tyto longimembris

Eastern grass owl

Rare

Critically endangered

No trend detected

Tyto novaehollandiae

Australian masked owl

Endangered

Critically endangered

-

Mammals

Caloprymnus campestris

Desert rat-kangaroo

Extinct

Endangered

Regionally extinct

No trend detected

Chalinolobus picatus

Little pied bat

Endangered

Insufficient data

-

Dasycercus byrnei

Kowari

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Decline

Isoodon auratus

Golden bandicoot

Vulnerable

Endangered

Regionally extinct

No trend detected

Macropus giganteus

Eastern grey kangaroo

Rare

Rare

-

Macrotis lagotis

Bilby (Greater bilby)

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Macrotis leucura

Lesser bilby

Extinct

Endangered

Regionally extinct

No trend detected

Notomys cervinus

Fawn hopping-mouse

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

No trend detected

Notomys fuscus

Dusky hopping-mouse

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Least concern

-

Pseudomys australis

Plains mouse (plains rat)

Vulnerable

Vulnerable

Rare

Decline

Saccolaimus flaviventris

Yellow-bellied sheathtail-bat

Rare

Insufficient data

-

Data: Gillam and Urban (2013). Source database does not include comments on water dependence, but a preliminary comment on water dependence is included here for consistency with Table 12.

‘-‘ means insufficient data

Last updated:
5 January 2018
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Product Finalisation date

2015

ASSESSMENT