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Comb-crested Jacana - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Irediparra gallinacea

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable external link

Commonwealth status: Not listed external link

Last updated: 07 Aug 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Comb-crested Jacana is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Coffs Coast and Escarpment	Known	None
Dalmorton	Predicted	None
Karuah Manning	Known	None
Macleay Hastings	Known	None
Upper Hunter	Known	None
Yuraygir	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Comb-crested Jacana - NSW North Coast is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
  - 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
  - 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
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- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
  - 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
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Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
  - 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
  - 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
  - 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
  - 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
  - 3963 Estuarine Reedland
  - 3964 Far North Floodplain Fern-Forb Wetland
  - 3965 Far North Floodplain Forb-Sedge Wetland
  - 3973 Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
  - 3966 Foredune Swale Marsh
  - 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
  - 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
  - 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
  - 3970 Northern Sands Water Couch Wetland
  - 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - 3974 Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
  - 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
  - 3976 Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
  - 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
  - 3977 Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
  - 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
- Inland Floodplain Swamps
  - 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
  - 416 Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 400 Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 447 Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
  - 361 Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 410 Swamp Paper-bark very tall shrubland wetland on sodic soils in the Pilliga Scrub region
  - 204 Water Couch marsh grassland wetland of frequently flooded inland watercourses
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- Montane Lakes
  - 3978 Morass Margin Shallow Wetlands
  - 3979 Northern Basalt Benches Intermittent Swamps
  - 3980 Southern Lacustrine Herbfield
  - 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands

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

Saline wetlands
- Mangrove Swamps
  - 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
- Saltmarshes
  - 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
  - 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4096 Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
  - 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4101 South Coast Spear-grass Saltmarsh
  - 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
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