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Threatened species

Northern long-nosed potoroo - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Potorous tridactylus tridactylus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Last updated: 01 Nov 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Northern long-nosed potoroo 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
Bungonia Known None
Kybeyan-Gourock Known None
Monaro Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Northern long-nosed potoroo - 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.

  • 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
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3435 Hunter Coast Lowland Flats Damp Forest
      • 3436 Hunter Coast Sandy Creekflat Low Paperbark Scrub
      • 3446 Lower North Foothills Ironbark-Box-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3447 Shoalhaven Foothills Spotted Gum Forest
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
      • 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 1553 Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy open forest of the New England Tablelands
      • 965 Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Mountain Ribbon Gum grassy open forest of the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion
    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • Southern Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3450 Far South Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3451 Far South Sheltered Monkey Gum Forest
      • 3452 Southeast Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
      • 3548 Far North Sands Scribbly Gum Heathy Forest
      • 3549 Lower North Sandplain Heathy Forest
      • 3551 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Red Mahogany Forest
      • 3552 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Stringybark Forest
      • 3553 Northern Sands Bloodwood-Swamp Turpentine Forest
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    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3568 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark Heathy Woodland
      • 3571 Mount Warning Caldera Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3574 Northern Lowland Sandstones Dry Open Forest
      • 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
      • 1617 New England Blackbutt - Diehard Stringybark shrubby open forest on the Northern Tablelands escarpment and Barrington Tops
      • 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
      • 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
      • 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
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    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
    • South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3181 Bega Wet Shrub Forest
      • 3182 Far South Coastal Apple Gully Forest
      • 3183 Far South Hinterland Stringybark Sheltered Forest
      • 3184 Far South Lowland Creekflat Forest
      • 3185 Far South Riverflat Wet Forest
      • 3187 Shoalhaven Hinterland Peppermint Wet Gully Forest
      • 3189 South Coast Gully Shrub Forest
      • 3190 South Coast Hinterland Monkey Gum Wet Fern Forest
      • 3191 South Coast Ranges Moist Gully Forest
      • 3108 South Coast Scarp Wet Vine Forest
      • 3193 South Coast Stringybark-Monkey Gum Wet Forest
      • 3196 Southeast Hinterland Intermediate Shrub Forest
      • 3197 Southeast Hinterland Monkey Gum Moist Shrub Forest
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    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3646 Far South Coastal Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3648 Far South Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3649 Far South Lowland Depressions Shrub Forest
      • 3651 Gourock Range Peppermint-Ash Shrub Forest
      • 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3656 South Coast Foothills Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3657 South Coast Foothills Monkey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3658 South Coast Hinterland Bloodwood Forest
      • 3659 South Coast Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3660 South Coast Hinterland Yellow Stringybark Forest
      • 3661 South Coast Hinterland Yertchuk Forest
      • 3662 South Coast Lowland Blackbutt Forest
      • 3663 Southeast Foothills Stringybark Shrub Forest
      • 3664 Southeast Foothills Woollybutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3665 Southeast Hinterland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1093 Red Stringybark - Brittle Gum - Inland Scribbly Gum dry open forest of the tablelands, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
      • 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
      • 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3585 Morton Plateau Shrub Forest
      • 3586 Northern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3588 Shoalhaven Foothills Bloodwood Heathy Forest
      • 3589 Southern Highlands Escarpment Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3598 Woronora Plateau Scribbly Gum Woodland
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3614 Southern Highlands Sandstone Peppermint Forest
      • 3617 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest
      • 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3685 Budawang Sandstone Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3689 Shoalhaven Escarpment Peppermint-Silvertop Ash Forest
  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
      • 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
      • 4036 Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
      • 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
      • 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 4045 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
      • 4046 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
      • 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
      • 4048 Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
      • 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak 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
      • 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany 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
      • 3992 Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
      • 1127 Sandstone cliff-face soak
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
      • 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
      • 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
      • 3974 Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3895 Budawang Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3896 Budderoo-Morton Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3901 Far South Hinterland Heath
      • 3903 Far Southeast Lowland Heath Swamp
      • 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
      • 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
      • 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
      • 3917 Shoalhaven Lowland Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
      • 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
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    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3931 Budawang Escarpment Damp Coral Fern Forest
      • 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3787 Byron Graminoid Clay Heath
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
      • 3791 Far North Headland-Dune Scrub
      • 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
      • 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
      • 3794 Lower North Coast Headland Clay Heath
      • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
      • 3798 Tomaree Headland Rocky Scrub
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    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 3827 Eastern New England Leucogranite Mallee Scrub
      • 4130 Warra Rockplate Shrubland
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
      • 3817 Mount Nadgee Heath
    • Southern Montane Heaths
      • 3870 Far Southeast Mountain Rock Scrub
      • 4163 Mount Gibraltar Melaleuca Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3810 Southern Sydney Rockplate Heath
    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 3861 Morton Plateau Rocky Heath-Woodland
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
      • 3804 Northern Sands Wallum Banksia-Allocasuarina Scrub
      • 3805 Southern Sandplain Heath
  • Rainforests
    • Cool Temperate Rainforests
      • 1521 Black Olive Berry - Black Sassafras cool temperate rainforest in high altitude areas of the Barrington Tops and New England Tablelands
      • 3048 Border Ranges Antarctic Beech Rainforest
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3070 Far North Hinterland Kamala-Coogera Dry Rainforest
      • 3064 Far North Hoop Pine Dry Rainforest
      • 1540 Grey Myrtle - Grey Gum gully dry rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1539 Grey Myrtle sheltered gully dry rainforest in gullies of the Sydney Basin
      • 3099 Northern Escarpment Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
      • 3101 Northern Hinterland Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
      • 1543 Rusty Fig - Native Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of the Central Hunter Valley
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    • 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
      • 3027 Gibraltar Range Tea-tree-Phebalium Shrubland
      • 1529 Lilly Pilly - Coachwood gully warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 3031 Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
      • 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
      • 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 1531 Sassafras - Grey Possumwood warm temperate rainforest of the New England escarpment
      • 1523 Sassafras - Prickly Ash - Lilly Pilly warm temperate rainforest on ranges of the Barrington Tops and lower North Coast
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    • Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
      • 3046 Southeast Warm Temperate Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • 845 Giant Stinging Tree - Fig dry subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3001 Lismore Basalt Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3036 South Coast Warm Temperate-Subtropical Rainforest
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Montane Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3310 Gulaga Silvertop Ash Moist Forest
      • 3311 Southeast Escarpment Ash Forest
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
      • 3232 Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
      • 3069 Far North Hinterland Grey Box-Grey Gum Wet Forest
      • 3233 Far North Hinterland Grey Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3285 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
      • 3244 Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
      • 3248 Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 3249 Northern Bloodwood-Ironbark Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3251 Northern Gorges Diverse Grassy Forest
      • 3167 Northern Hinterland Blackbutt-Forest Oak Wet Forest
      • 3254 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
      • 3170 Northern Hinterland White Mahogany Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3258 Sydney Basin Creekflat Blue Gum-Apple Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3279 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3281 Guyra Granitoids Gum-Messmate Forest
      • 1554 Messmate - Silvertop Stringybark - Tussock Grass shrub - grass open forest of western Barrington Tops
      • 3286 Northern Escarpment Blackbutt Cool Moist Forest
      • 3287 Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
      • 3288 Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
      • 1547 Silvertop Stringybark - Messmate - Sydney Blue Gum moist shrub-grass tall open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast
      • 1546 Sydney Blue Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast
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    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • 3268 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
      • 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3139 Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • 3145 Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 3147 Far North Brush Box-Bloodwood Wet Forest
      • 3148 Far North Brush Box-Walnut Wet Forest
      • 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3153 Illawarra Escarpment Bangalay x Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 4115 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3157 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
      • 1575 Messmate - Forest Ribbon Gum - New England Blackbutt shrub - grass tall open forest of Barrington Tops and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
      • 3165 Northern Brush Box Subtropical Wet Forest
      • 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3168 Northern Hinterland Brush Box-Quince Wet Forest
      • 3169 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3102 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3171 Northern Lowland Viney Wet Forest
      • 3172 Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3173 Northern Ranges Dunns Gum-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 1563 Sydney Blue Gum – New England Blackbutt - Whitetop Box moist shrub – grass tall open forest of the lower North Coast
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    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3199 Far North New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • 931 Messmate - Mountain Gum tall moist forest of the far southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1574 Messmate grassy tall open forest on Barrington and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3201 Mid North Escarpment Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 1577 New England Blackbutt - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy tall open forest of the Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3206 Northern Escarpment Corkwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3207 Northern Escarpment Layered Blackbutt Fern Forest
      • 3203 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • 3204 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3205 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Tallowwood Wet Forest
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    • Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3220 Southeast Tableland Ranges Brown Barrel Fern Forest
      • 3223 Southern Highlands Shale-Basalt Wet Forest