Bristle-faced Free-tailed Bat - Murray Darling Depression: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Darling Depression	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
  • Gibber Transition Shrublands
    • 197 Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
  • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
    • 69 White Cypress Pine - Mulga shrubland on plains and sandplains in the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) climate zones.

• Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
  • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
    • 856 Grey Box - Rough-barked Apple shrub/grass open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 517 Grey Box shrubby open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 527 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion and northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 228 Semi-mesic woodland on basalt hills of the dry subtropical climate zone, north western slopes of NSW
    • 549 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- White Box shrubby open forest mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
    • 598 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Box - White Cypress Pine viney scrub woodland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 595 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - tea tree shrubby woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
    • 594 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine shrubby open forest of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
    • 562 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 596 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
    • 597 White Box - cypress pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrub grass open forest / woodland of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
    • 588 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby hills open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 591 White Box shrubby open forest on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 429 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box - Silver-leaved Ironbark viney shrub woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 564 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Caley's Ironbark open forest of the central Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 418 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Wilga shrub grass woodland of the Narrabri-Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • 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

• Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
  • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • 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
    • 504 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - stringybark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 674 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 675 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Red Gum - Caley's Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 508 Blakely's Red Gum - Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 512 Caleys Ironbark - Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on acid volcanics of the northern New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 523 McKies Stringybark - Western New England Blackbutt - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 528 Mugga Ironbark - Blakely's Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 536 Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on acid volcanics of the north western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 551 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark - Tenterfield Woollybutt shrubby open forest of the Horton River area of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 556 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark shrubby open forest of the northern New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 538 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely’s Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 552 Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple - Eucalyptus quinniorum shrubby open forest of southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 578 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 579 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on rhyolite geology of the Nandewar Bioregion and north west New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 580 Tumbledown Red Gum - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest on Rock of Gibraltar in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
    • 584 Western New England Blackbutt - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Stringybark She Oak open forest of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
    • 558 Western New England Blackbutt - stringybark open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
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  • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
    • 671 Black Cypress Pine - Acacia - Red Ash shrubby woodland of the far northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
    • 592 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine - White Box shrubby open forestin the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
    • 443 Red Ironbark - sheoak shrubby woodland of the Yetman-Warialda region, northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 449 Stringybark She Oak - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - sticky mintbush low woodland in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 1277 Tumbledown Gum - Blakely's Red Gum - pine shrubby forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 581 Tumbledown Red Gum - Dwyer's Red Gum - Wallaby Bush shrubby woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 577 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum shrubby forest of northern Nandewar Bioregion
    • 1307 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 1314 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 1316 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar 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
    • 791 Cypress pine - Bulloak shrubby woodland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 810 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine - Northern Smooth-barked Apple shrub/grass open forest in the far north of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 367 Forest Red Gum x Blakely's Red Gum - box woodland of the Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 374 Grey Box - cypress pine - red gum woodland on deep sandy loam soil in northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 1380 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - pine - Brown Bloodwood shrub/grass open forest in the north west of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 373 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine +/- Buloke tall open forest or woodland of the Warialda to Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 998 Northern Smooth-barked Apple - pine shrubby open-forest of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 448 Smooth-barked Apple - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark sandstone open forest in the Warialda to Arakoola region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 368 Smooth-barked Apple - cypress pine - Long-fruited Bloodwood - Dirty Gum shrubby open forest / woodland on sandstone hills in the Warialda to Bonshaw region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar
    • 450 Smooth-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine grass shrub woodland on lower slopes and sandy flats, north-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 363 Swamp Paper-bark sodic scald wetland / shrubland of the Yetman - Yalarbon region Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 372 Wattle low woodland/ tall shrubland on sandstone ridges in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 235 Yelarbon Buloke - Western Grey Box - spinifex low open woodland / hummock grassland on sandy sodic soils
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• Forested wetlands
  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • 233 River Red Gum - Poplar Box grassy woodland wetland on Quaternary alluvial sandy-loam soils of the Cobar Peneplain
    • 36 River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 234 River Red Gum woodland wetland of rocky creeks in the ranges of the arid climate zone

• Grassy woodlands
  • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
    • 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
    • 56 Poplar Box - Belah woodland on clay-loam soils on alluvial plains of north-central NSW
    • 101 Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 244 Poplar Box grassy woodland on alluvial clay-loam soils mainly in the temperate (hot summer) climate zone of central NSW (wheatbelt).
    • 81 Western Grey Box - cypress pine shrub grass shrub tall woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 82 Western Grey Box - Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine tall woodland on red loams mainly of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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  • New England Grassy Woodlands
    • 853 Grey Box - Narrow-leaved Ironbark open forest of the Ashford area of the Nandewar Bioregion
    • 539 Rough-barked Apple - Cabbage Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion

• Miscellaneous ecosystems
  • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
    • 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
    • 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
    • 208 River Red Gum low woodland of rocky gorges and creeks in the Cobar Peneplain
  • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
    • 55 Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
    • 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
    • 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
    • 39 Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 40 Coolabah open woodland wetland with chenopod/grassy ground cover on grey and brown clay floodplains
    • 230 Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country Bioregion
    • 87 Poplar Box - Coolabah floodplain woodland on light clay soil mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 207 Poplar Box grassy low woodland of drainage lines and depressions of the semi-arid (hot) and arid zone climate zones
    • 41 River Red Gum open woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses mainly of the arid climate zone
    • 67 Yapunyah woodland wetland of Cuttaburra-Paroo River system, Mulga Lands Bioregion
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• Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
  • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
    • 104 Gum Coolabah woodland on sedimentary substrates mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
    • 122 Gum Coolabah woodland on slopes of sandstone ranges in the Paroo - Darling region, mainly Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • 106 White Cypress Pine - Mulga low woodland on siliceous rocky ranges mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
  • North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
    • 71 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
    • 117 Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
    • 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
  • Western Peneplain Woodlands
    • 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
    • 108 Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
    • 103 Poplar Box - Gum Coolabah - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
    • 109 Poplar Box - Mulga - Ironwood woodland on red loam soils on plains in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and north-eastern Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • 98 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine - Wilga - Ironwood shrubby woodland on red sandy-loam soils in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 105 Poplar Box grassy woodland on flats mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
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