Nature conservation

Threatened species

Comb-crested Jacana - Ocean: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Irediparra gallinacea
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
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 Ocean Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Manning Shelf Known None
Tweed-Moreton Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

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

  • 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