Last updated:
07 Sep 2017
Distribution of the species within this region
The Western Pygmy Possum is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Murray Darling Depression Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Western Pygmy Possum - Murray Darling Depression is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Dune Mallee Woodlands
- 172 Deep sand mallee of irregular dunefields of the semi-arid (warm) zone
- 191 Snap and Rattle Mallee - Moonah open mallee shrubland in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- 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
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
- 221 Black Oak - Pearl Bluebush open woodland of the sandplains of the semi-arid warm and arid climate zones
- 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion