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Turquoise Parrot - Murray Darling Depression: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Neophema pulchella
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Not listedexternal link
Last updated: 29 Jun 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Turquoise Parrot 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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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Darling Depression Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Turquoise Parrot - 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.

  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3472 Bungonia Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3473 Bungonia Slates Shrubby Open Forest
      • 3474 Burragorang Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
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    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3417 Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
      • 3418 Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
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    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 1608 Grey Box - Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum grassy open forest of the central Hunter
      • 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 493 Forest Oak - Rough-barked Apple - Silvertop Stringybark shrub grass open forest on protected slopes of the Liverpool Range
      • 1394 Rough-barked Apple - Silvertop Stringybark - Red Stringybark grassy open forest of the upper Hunter Valley, south western New England Tableland Bioregion and southern NSW North Coast Bioregion
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1607 Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of the upper Hunter
      • 432 Dwyer's Red Gum - Dirty (Baradine) Gum - cypress pine shrubby woodland of the Narrabri region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 702 Blakely's Red Gum riparian woodland of the Pilliga Outwash, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 411 Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 148 Dirty Gum - Buloke - White Cypress Pine - ironbark shrubby woodland on deep sandy soils in the Liverpool Plains region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 338 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box woodland on Wyangala Granite in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 353 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - box - Daviesia latifolia - snow grass open forest on sandy loam soils from acid volcanics in the Boorowa - Young region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregio
      • 288 Long-leaved Box - Black Cypress Pine granitic hillcrest shrubby open forest of the upper Murray Valley region, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
      • 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
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    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
      • 481 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark +/- Grey Gum sandstone riparian grass fern open forest on in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Upper Hunter region
    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
      • 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 609 Black Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on Mole Granite of the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1675 Scribbly Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bossiaea rhombifolia heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
      • 3639 South Coast Sands Bangalay Littoral Forest
      • 3640 South Coast Sands Littoral Scrub
      • 3641 Wonboyn Sand Forest
    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3665 Southeast Hinterland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3492 Wollondilly-Shoalhaven Quartz Hills Forest
    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 700 Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine dry shrub forest of the Lower Abercrombie area of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 701 Blakely's Red Gum - Red Stringybark open forest on slopes and hills of the western slopes
      • 351 Brittle Gum - Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark open forest in the north-western part (Yass to Orange) of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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    • Southern Wattle Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3797 Southeast Scarp Wattle Scrub
    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3580 Burralow Swamp Woodland
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 621 Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple alluvial flat woodland in the upper Hunter Valley, mainly Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
      • 624 Large-fruited Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark open forest on sheltered sandstone hillslopes in the Scone region of the upper Hunter Valley
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3689 Shoalhaven Escarpment Peppermint-Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 1630 Sydney Peppermint - Grey Gum heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
      • 3633 Mellong Sand Swamp Woodland
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 480 Black Cypress Pine - ironbark +/- Narrow-leaved Wattle low open forest mainly on Narrabeen Sandstone in the Upper Hunter region of the Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 417 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - red gum +/- White Bloodwood shrubby open forest on hills of the southern Pilliga, Coonabarabran and Garawilla regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 370 Black Cypress Pine - Dirty Gum - bloodwood - She Oak open forest on siliceous hills in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 672 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Dirty Gum grassy open forest of north western Nandewar Bioregion
      • 369 Blakely's Red Gum - Smooth-barked Apple shrub swamp woodland on siliceous white sands in the Yetman region
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
      • 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
      • 4024 Cumberland Blue Box Riverflat Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
      • 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4061 Bega-Towamba Riparian Scrub
      • 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak Forest
      • 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
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    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 356 Blakely's Red Gum x Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall riparian woodland, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 5 River Red Gum herbaceous-grassy very tall open forest wetland on inner floodplains in the lower slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and the eastern Riverina Bioregion.
      • 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3958 Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
      • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3894 Blue Mountains Creekline Shrub Swamp
      • 3895 Budawang Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3896 Budderoo-Morton Damp Swamp Heath
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  • Grasslands
    • Maritime Grasslands
      • 3408 Northern Headland Grassland
      • 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
      • 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
      • 3411 Tollgate Island Littoral Scrub
    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 1698 Plains grass; Purple wiregrass; Wallaby Grass grassland on basalt soils of the Merriwa plateau
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 1696 Blakely's Red Gum - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of central and upper Hunter
      • 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
      • 3320 Cumberland Shale Plains Woodland
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    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
      • 248 Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
      • 101 Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 501 Bendemeer White Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple +/- Moonbi Apple Box grassy open forest of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 705 Blakely's Red Gum moist sedgey woodland on flats and drainage lines of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
      • 1191 Snow Gum - Candle Bark woodland on broad valley flats of the tablelands and slopes, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 534 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on sedimentary or basaltic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1099 Ribbon Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 383 Apple Box - Rough-barked Apple terrace flats woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
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  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3787 Byron Graminoid Clay Heath
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
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    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 4128 Northern New England Rock Outcrop Shrubland
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3815 Eurobodalla Headland Heath
      • 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
      • 3817 Mount Nadgee Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 4127 Colo Plateau Dwarf Apple Heath-Woodland
      • 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
      • 3808 Northern Sydney Sandstone Rockplate Shrubland
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    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
      • 3805 Southern Sandplain Heath
      • 3806 Sydney Coastal Sand Mantle Heath
  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4092 Coastal Headland Sea Spray Grassland
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
      • 257 Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW
      • 184 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang low shrub-grass woodland of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 185 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby woodland mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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    • North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
      • 428 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - Curracabah - White Box tall woodland on sand in the Narrabri - Warialda region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 206 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall woodland of alluvial sand (sand monkeys) in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 227 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland on alluvial terraces in central-north NSW
    • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
      • 75 Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland on deep sandy-loam alluvial soils of the eastern Riverina Bioregion and western NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
      • 474 Dwyer's Red Gum - she oak mallee shrubland on eolian sand in the Gilgandra region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 174 Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 193 Red Mallee - White Mallee extremely tall tree mallee on silty-loam-clay soils of central south-western NSW
      • 173 Sandplain mallee of central NSW
    • Western Peneplain Woodlands
      • 105 Poplar Box grassy woodland on flats mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 72 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box woodland on footslopes and peneplains mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion