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Northern Free-tailed Bat - New England Tablelands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Ozimops lumsdenae
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Not listedexternal link
Last updated: 24 Mar 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Northern Free-tailed Bat is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the New England Tablelands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Severn River Volcanics Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Northern Free-tailed Bat - New England Tablelands 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)
    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3421 Clarence Sandstone Pink Bloodwood Grassy Forest
      • 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3428 Northern Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Turpentine Grassy Forest
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 568 Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 530 Nandewar Box - Western New England Blackbutt - Red Stringybark open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 983 New England Blackbutt - stringybark grassy forest the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 394 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress pine woodland on slopes and flats in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga Scrub regions
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3547 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3548 Far North Sands Scribbly Gum Heathy Forest
      • 3551 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Red Mahogany Forest
    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3569 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3574 Northern Lowland Sandstones Dry Open Forest
      • 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
      • 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
      • 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
      • 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
    • 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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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4030 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4032 Far North Floodplain Red Gum Sedge Forest
      • 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
      • 4045 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
      • 4046 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 3988 Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
      • 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4066 Clarence Valley River Oak Wet Forest
      • 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3329 Northern Hinterland Valleys Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 704 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 510 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 734 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodlands of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 921 Manna Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 606 Mountain Gum - Ribbon Gum open forest of drainage lines of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
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  • Rainforests
    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
      • 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
      • 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3031 Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
      • 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
      • 3008 Far North Lowland Sub-Littoral Rainforest
      • 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
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  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4140 Far North Mangrove Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh