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Threatened species

Jewelled Gecko - Broken Hill Complex: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Strophurus elderi

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Jewelled Gecko is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Broken Hill Complex Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Barrier Range	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Jewelled Gecko - Broken Hill Complex is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
- Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
  - 359 Porcupine Grass - Red Mallee - Gum Coolabah hummock grassland / low sparse woodland on metamorphic ranges on the Barrier Range, Broken Hill Complex Bioregion

Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Dune Mallee Woodlands
  - 172 Deep sand mallee of irregular dunefields of the semi-arid (warm) zone
  - 171 Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
  - 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
  - 190 Mallee Box open woodland mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion

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Jewelled Gecko, Steve Sass Image 1 of 3.
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