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Threatened species

Mount Kaputar high elevation and dry rainforest land snail and slug community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions - Nandewar: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Mount Kaputar high elevation and dry rainforest land snail and slug community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered Ecological Community
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 06 Oct 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The Mount Kaputar high elevation and dry rainforest land snail and slug community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Nandewar Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Kaputar Known None
Peel Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Mount Kaputar high elevation and dry rainforest land snail and slug community in the Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions - Nandewar 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)
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 530 Nandewar Box - Western New England Blackbutt - Red Stringybark open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 572 Silvertop Stringybark - Bendemeer White Gum - Ribbon Gum open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 550 Silvertop Stringybark - Nandewar Box shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 497 Tea tree shrubland / sedgeland / forbland swamp wetland on the Liverpool Range, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3956 Western New England Wet Tea-tree Scrub
  • Grassy woodlands
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 491 Forest Ribbon Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Mountain Gum tall open forest on basalt on the Liverpool Range, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 490 Silvertop Stringybark - Forest Ribbon Gum very tall moist open forest on basalt plateau on the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 494 Snow Gum - Mountain Gum - Silver Wattle tall open forest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 525 Mountain Gum - Snow Gum grassy open forest at high altitudes in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
  • Heathlands
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 446 Riparian tea tree - bottlebush - pennywort forbland / shrubland / wetland of montane creeks in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 4143 Northwest Ranges Alectryon Dry Rainforest
      • 4144 Northwest Ranges Fig Dry Rainforest
      • 1124 Rusty Fig - Wild Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of rocky areas of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 547 Wild Quince - Mock Olive - Rusty Fig - Iamboto - Sweet Pittosporum dry rainforest of rocky and scree areas of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion