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Threatened species

Zigzag Velvet Gecko - New England Tablelands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Amalosia rhombifer
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 09 Jun 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Zigzag Velvet Gecko 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
Eastern Nandewars Known None
Severn River Volcanics Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Zigzag Velvet Gecko - 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)
    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
      • 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
      • 3514 Nandewar Hills Apple-White Box Shrub-Grass Woodland
      • 3515 Nandewar Serpentinite Red Stringybark Woodland
      • 4148 Northwest Apple-White Pine Riparian Grassy Forest
      • 3516 Northwest Black Pine-Ironbark Forest
      • 3518 Northwest Pine-Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 3519 Northwest Ranges Rocky Tumbledown Gum Scrub
      • 4149 Northwest Red Gum-Apple-White Pine Grassy Woodland
      • 3522 Northwest White Box Spinifex Woodland
      • 3521 Northwest White Box Woodland
      • 4150 Northwest White Box-White Pine Forest
      • 3523 Northwest White Pine-Box Woodland
      • 4151 Northwest White Pine-Silver-leaved Ironbark Forest
      • 543 Rough-barked Apple - White Box - Rusty Fig shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregions
      • 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
      • 413 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - box dry shrub grass woodland of the Pilliga Scrub - Warialda region, 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
      • 573 Stringybark - spinifex woodland associated serpentinite outcrops in the 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
      • 587 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of 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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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3713 Macintyre Hills Ironbark Shrub Forest
      • 3707 Mole River Blackbutt Woodland
      • 3708 Mole River Hills Wallangarra White Gum Woodland
      • 3717 Mole River Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Shrub Woodland
      • 3709 Moonbi Range Rocky Granite Woodland
      • 3699 Moredun Ranges Stringybark Exposed Forest
      • 3711 Northern New England Orange Gum Exposed Woodland
      • 3703 Northwest New England Felsic Ironbark-Red Gum Gully Forest
      • 3706 Northwest New England Laterite McKies Stringybark Forest
      • 3702 Northwest New England Ranges Caleys Ironbark Woodland
      • 3718 Northwest New England Rocky Riparian Forest
      • 3704 Northwest New England Stringybark-Pine Exposed Forest
      • 3716 Northwest New England Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Exposed Forest
      • 3714 Pindari Ironbark-Pine Exposed Woodland
      • 3715 Pindari Orange Gum Rocky Woodland
      • 3720 Torrington Riparian Forest-Scrub
      • 3722 Western New England Box-Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3724 Western New England Caleys Ironbark-Tumbledown Gum Forest
      • 3698 Western New England Granite Orange Gum Gully Woodland
      • 3726 Western New England Granite Pine-Stringybark-Gum Forest
      • 3705 Western New England Hills Apple-Stringybark Forest
      • 3728 Western New England Hills Blackbutt-Stringybark Forest
      • 3710 Western New England Hills Orange Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3723 Western New England Panic-Wiregrass Grassland
      • 3725 Western New England Ranges Orange Gum-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3727 Western New England Silvertop Stringybark Forest
      • 3729 Western New England Youmans Stringybark Shrub Forest
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
      • 430 Motherumbah - Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine tall shrubland of the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 531 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Motherumbah woodland in the Kaputar area in the 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
      • 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
      • 431 White Bloodwood - Dirty Gum - cypress pine shrubby low woodland on sandy soils in the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1313 White Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrub/grass open forest of the western Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1314 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South 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
      • 366 Fringe Myrtle heathland / shrubland on rock platforms in 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
      • 371 Silver-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine - Stringybark She Oak shrubby woodland in the Yetman - Warialda region, 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
      • 422 Smooth-barked Apple - cypress pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Bloodwood tall heathy woodland of the Pilliga forests to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 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
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3356 Northwest Ranges Apple-Stringybark Sheltered Forest
      • 3361 Tenterfield Plateau Stringybark-Apple Forest
      • 3363 Western New England Blakelys Red Gum-Box Grassy Forest
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 3344 New England Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3345 New England Snow Gum-Black Sally Woodland
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 599 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 441 Carbeen - White Box +/- Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on basalt hills, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 451 Derived Spear Grass - Slender Bamboo Grass mixed tussock grassland mainly of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 516 Grey Box grassy woodland or open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3393 Northwest Basalt Box Plains Grass Woodland
      • 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
      • 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
      • 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
      • 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
      • 4147 Northwest White Box Sparse Grassy Woodland
      • 3397 Northwest Yellow Box Grassy Woodland
      • 511 Queensland Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Rats Tail Grass - spear grass - panic grass derived grassland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 544 Rough-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum riparian open forest / woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 593 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 444 Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on clay-loam soils on plains in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 589 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland on mainly clay loam soils on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 590 White Box grassy woodland on the Inverell basalts mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
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