Last updated:
22 Mar 2023
Distribution of the species within this region
The Pink-tailed Legless Lizard is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
NSW South Western Slopes Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Pink-tailed Legless Lizard - NSW South Western Slopes 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 (shrubby sub-formation)
- Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3722 Western New England Box-Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
- 3724 Western New England Caleys Ironbark-Tumbledown Gum Forest
- 3727 Western New England Silvertop Stringybark Forest
- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3492 Wollondilly-Shoalhaven Quartz Hills Forest
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 3730 Bondo Slopes Dry Stringybark Forest
- 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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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 1614 Grey Gum - Grey Myrtle - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Rusty Fig open forest on ranges of the Upper Hunter
- 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
- 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- 3623 Western Blue Mountains Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
- 3626 Wollemi Plateau Stringybark-Grey Gum Forest
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 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
- 423 Blue-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland mainly in the east Pilliga forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 325 Blue-leaved Stringybark open forest of the Mudgee region NSW central western slopes
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- Grasslands
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
- 895 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland on steep sites in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Easte
- 896 Kangaroo Grass - Wallaby Grass - Snow Grass moist tussock grassland in the Monaro and the Southern Tablelands regions of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Western Slopes Grasslands
- 796 Derived grassland of the NSW South Western Slopes
- 484 Derived tall spear grass grassland on mainly basalt hills of the Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Range and in the upper Hunter Valley (Merriwa district), south-eastern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 250 Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
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- 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
- 3314 Central Hunter Slopes Grey Box Forest
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- New England Grassy Woodlands
- 3356 Northwest Ranges Apple-Stringybark Sheltered Forest
- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
- 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands 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
- 3365 Bondo Slopes Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
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- Subalpine Woodlands
- 3383 Kosciuszko Subalpine Hollows Black Sally Woodland
- 1191 Snow Gum - Candle Bark woodland on broad valley flats of the tablelands and slopes, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
- 3341 Monaro-Gourock Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
- 3342 Mount Kaputar Montane Box Forest
- 3343 Mount Kaputar Montane Gum Forest
- 3347 Southern Tableland Creekflat Ribbon Gum Forest
- 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
- 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 279 Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine woodland on footslopes of hills in central part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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