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Threatened species

Bathurst Grassland Earless Dragon - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Tympanocryptis mccartneyi
Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered
Commonwealth status: Critically Endangered
Last updated: 01 Aug 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Bathurst Grassland Earless Dragon 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 Known None
Hill End Predicted None
Oberon Predicted None
Orange Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Bathurst Grassland Earless Dragon - 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.

  • Grassy woodlands
    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 705 Blakely's Red Gum moist sedgey woodland on flats and drainage lines of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 350 Candlebark - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box grassy woodland in the Rye Park to Yass region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highland Bioregion
      • 3367 Central Tableland Granites Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3369 Central Tableland Ranges Peppermint-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3370 Central Tableland Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
      • 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
      • 312 Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on valley flats in the upper slopes of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 277 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3387 Central West Creekflat Grassy Woodland
      • 275 Herbaceous White Box - Apple Box valley woodland of the NSW central western slopes
      • 278 Riparian Blakely's Red Gum - box - shrub - sedge - grass tall open forest of the central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3406 Southwest Ranges White Box Woodland
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