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Threatened species

Yellow-spotted Tree Frog - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Litoria castanea
Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered
Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered
Last updated: 14 Oct 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Yellow-spotted Tree Frog is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Bathurst Predicted None
Crookwell Predicted None
Hill End Predicted None
Kanangra Predicted None
Monaro Known None
Murrumbateman Known None
Oberon Predicted None
Orange Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Yellow-spotted Tree Frog - South Eastern Highlands is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Forested wetlands
    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak Forest
      • 4064 Central Eastern Ranges River Oak Forest
      • 4065 Central Tableland Riverine Complex
      • 4067 Deua Riparian Wattle Scrub
      • 4071 Far South Hinterland Riparian Scrub
      • 4081 Northwest River Oak-River Red Gum Forest
      • 4075 Northwest River Red Gum-River Oak Sheltered Forest
      • 85 River Oak forest and woodland wetland of the NSW South Western Slopes and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 4083 Southeast Tableland Rocky Riparian Scrub
      • 4084 Southern Escarpment River Oak Forest
      • 4085 Southwest Tableland Gorges Riparian Shrubland
      • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
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    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 4088 Southwest Riverflat Red Gum Forest
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 360 Gilgai wetland mosaic in the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
      • 465 Reedland - tussock grass - segeland fen swampy wetland of impeded creeks in southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3982 Southwest Floodplain Wetland Meadow
      • 335 Tussock grass - sedgeland fen - rushland - reedland wetland in impeded creeks in valleys in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3930 Bondo Montane Flats Swamp Woodland
      • 766 Carex sedgeland of the slopes and tablelands
      • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
      • 3934 Eastern New England Granite Wet Heath
      • 3935 Eastern New England Rocky Riparian Scrub
      • 3936 Ebor Basalt Wet Heath
      • 3939 Kosciuszko Western Flanks Wet Meadow
      • 3940 Liverpool Range Swampy Tea-tree Shrubland
      • 607 Montane bogs on the western fall of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3933 New England Orange Gum Boggy Woodland
      • 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
      • 3944 New England Tableland Carex Fens
      • 3937 Northern Escarpment Granitoid Wet Heath
      • 582 Sedgeland fens wetland of impeded drainage of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3948 Southeast Subalpine Bog
      • 3951 Southern Tableland Ranges Boggy Open Woodland
      • 3954 Western Central Tableland Upland Swamp
      • 3955 Western New England Granites Riparian Scrub
      • 3956 Western New England Wet Tea-tree Scrub
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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
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 3365 Bondo Slopes Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
      • 3366 Central Tableland Clay Apple Box Grassy Forest
      • 3367 Central Tableland Granites Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3368 Central Tableland Limestone Woodland
      • 3369 Central Tableland Ranges Peppermint-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3370 Central Tableland Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
      • 3372 Dalton Hills Grassy Stringybark Forest
      • 3373 Goulburn Tableland Box-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3374 Goulburn Tableland Peppermint Grassy Forest
      • 3375 Monaro-Queanbeyan Rolling Hills Grassy Forest
      • 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3377 Southwest Foothills Apple Box Grassy Forest
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3385 Southern Tableland Creekflat Swamp Woodland
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 3337 Bondo Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
      • 3338 Goulburn Tableland Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
      • 3341 Monaro-Gourock Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 3387 Central West Creekflat Grassy Woodland
      • 3388 Central West Valleys White Box Forest
      • 3400 Southwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Woodland
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3291 Bondo Montane Valley Flats Forest
      • 3292 Bondo Slopes Peppermint Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3293 Bondo Slopes Peppermint Sheltered Fern Forest
      • 3294 Central Tableland Peppermint-Gum Montane Forest
      • 3303 Central Tableland Ribbon Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3295 Crookwell-Taralga Basalt Grassy Forest
      • 3296 Kosciuszko Flanks Moist Gully Forest
      • 3297 Kosciuszko Snow Gum-Mountain Gum Moist Forest
      • 3298 Monaro Ranges Montane Gully Forest
      • 3301 Southeast Tableland Ranges Snow Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3302 Southern Highlands Shale-Basalt Dry Forest
      • 3304 Southern Tableland Swamp Flats Shrub Woodland
      • 3305 Sydney Montane Basalt Moist Forest
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