Nature conservation

Threatened species

Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW:
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Last updated: 13 Mar 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Brigalow Belt South Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community - Brigalow Belt South is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 530 Nandewar Box - Western New England Blackbutt - Red Stringybark open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 572 Silvertop Stringybark - Bendemeer White Gum - Ribbon Gum open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 550 Silvertop Stringybark - Nandewar Box shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
  • Heathlands
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 446 Riparian tea tree - bottlebush - pennywort forbland / shrubland / wetland of montane creeks in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 4143 Northwest Ranges Alectryon Dry Rainforest
      • 4144 Northwest Ranges Fig Dry Rainforest
      • 1124 Rusty Fig - Wild Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of rocky areas of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 547 Wild Quince - Mock Olive - Rusty Fig - Iamboto - Sweet Pittosporum dry rainforest of rocky and scree areas of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion