Last updated:
01 Dec 2017
Distribution of the species within this region
The Long-haired Rat is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Broken Hill Complex Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
Click on column headers to sort
Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Long-haired Rat - 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)
- Gibber Transition Shrublands
- 118 Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
- 131 Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
- Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
- 140 Broombush shrubland in dunefields of the arid climate zone
- 129 Cabbage-tree Wattle shrubland of the inland plains and drainage lines
- 143 Narrow-leaved Hopbush - Scrub Turpentine - Senna shrubland on semi-arid and arid sandplains and dunes.
- Show 4 more vegetation type(s)
- Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
- 138 Desert Paper-bark shrubland wetland of semi-arid and arid climate zone watercourses.
- 359 Porcupine Grass - Red Mallee - Gum Coolabah hummock grassland / low sparse woodland on metamorphic ranges on the Barrier Range, Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
- Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
- Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
- 225 Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone
- Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
- 156 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
- 155 Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
- 224 Cotton Bush - copperburr open shrubland of the arid climate zone
- Show 4 more vegetation type(s)
- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
- 377 Copperburr low open shrubland on loam - clay flats and playas, western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- 158 Old Man Saltbush - mixed chenopod shrubland of the semi-arid hot (persistently dry) and arid climate zones (north-western NSW)
- Grasslands
- Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
- 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
- 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- 242 Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains
- Saline wetlands
- Inland Saline lakes
- 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
- 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
- 62 Samphire saline shrubland/forbland wetland of lake beds and lake margins in the arid and semi-arid (hot) zones
- Show 4 more vegetation type(s)