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Threatened species

False Water-rat - Ocean - Other State: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Xeromys myoides

Conservation status in NSW:

Commonwealth status: Vulnerable

Last updated: 13 Apr 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The False Water-rat is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Ocean - Other State Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Northern Australian Coastal Waters	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the False Water-rat - Ocean - Other State is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4030 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak 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
  - 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
  - 3991 Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
  - 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
  - 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
  - 4008 Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
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Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
  - 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
  - 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
  - 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
  - 3963 Estuarine Reedland
  - 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
  - 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
  - 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
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- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3898 Clarence Lowland Smudgy Apple Banksia Forest
  - 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
  - 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland

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