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Giant Barred Frog - South Eastern Queensland: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Mixophyes iteratus

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Vulnerable

Last updated: 09 Apr 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Giant Barred Frog is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Queensland Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Burringbar-Conondale Ranges	Known	None
Clarence Lowlands	Known	None
Clarence Sandstones	Known	None
Scenic Rim	Known	None
Sunshine Coast-Gold Coast Lowlands	Predicted	None
Woodenbong	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Giant Barred Frog - South Eastern Queensland 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
  - 3417 Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
  - 3418 Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3421 Clarence Sandstone Pink Bloodwood Grassy Forest
  - 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3424 Drake Hills Spotted Gum Forest
  - 3425 Far North Hinterland Swamp Turpentine-Apple Forest
  - 3426 Mid Clarence Valley Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3428 Northern Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Turpentine Grassy Forest
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- Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
- New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
- Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
  - 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite Grassy Forest
  - 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3457 Curricabark Serpentinite Mallee Spinifex Scrub
  - 3470 Macleay Gorges Riverflat Grassy Forest
  - 3461 Macleay Gorges Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3462 Northern Gorges Blakes Wattle Rock Scrub
  - 3463 Northern Gorges Granite Stringybark-Apple Grassy Forest
  - 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
  - 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3466 Northern Gorges Red Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3460 Northern Gorges Sheltered Grassy Forest
  - 3468 Nymboida Rhyolite Moist Forest
  - 3471 Upper Guy Fawkes Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
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Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3563 Clarence Sandstone Blackbutt-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3564 Clarence Sandstone Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
  - 3565 Glenreagh Sandstone Riparian Scrub
  - 3572 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Outcrop Shrub Woodland
  - 3574 Northern Lowland Sandstones Dry Open Forest
  - 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3576 Yarriabini Granite Dry Forest
  - 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
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- Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
  - 3681 Nymboida Rocky Slopes Low Forest
  - 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
  - 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
  - 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
  - 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
  - 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3595 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Gully Forest
  - 3596 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Forest
  - 3597 Watagan Escarpment Rocky Shrub Forest
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3604 Hunter Range Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
  - 3606 Hunter Range Peppermint Moist Gully Forest
  - 3615 Sydney Hinterland Apple-Blackbutt Gully Forest
  - 3619 Sydney Hinterland Enriched Sandstone Bloodwood Forest
  - 3616 Sydney Hinterland Grey Gum Transition Forest
  - 3617 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest
  - 3618 Sydney Hinterland Sandflat Peppermint Forest
  - 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
  - 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
  - 3622 Sydney Hinterland Yellow Bloodwood Woodland
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Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
  - 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
  - 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
  - 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
  - 4041 Lower Hunter Flats Red Gum Mesic 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
  - 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
  - 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
  - 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
  - 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 4002 Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
  - 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4005 Northern Paperbark Banksia Littoral 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
  - 4013 Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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- Eastern Riverine Forests
  - 4066 Clarence Valley River Oak Wet Forest
  - 4069 Far North Creekline Wet Forest
  - 4070 Far North River Oak Wet Forest
  - 4072 Hunter River Oak Mesic Forest
  - 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
  - 4077 Northern Coastal River Oak Wet Forest
  - 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
  - 4079 Northern Hinterland Grassy River Oak Forest
  - 3020 Northern Hinterland River Oak Sheltered Forest
  - 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
  - 4087 Upper Orara Riparian Wet Forest
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Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
  - 3914 Northern Sands Chorizandra Sedgeland
- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3898 Clarence Lowland Smudgy Apple Banksia Forest
  - 3899 Clarence Sandstone Plateau Wet Heath
  - 3897 Lower Clarence Sandy Creekflat Sedgeland
  - 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
  - 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
  - 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
  - 3911 Northern Sand Swale Fernland
  - 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
  - 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
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- Montane Bogs and Fens
  - 4136 Timbarra Granite Mallee Wet Heath

Heathlands
- Northern Montane Heaths
  - 3847 Timbarra Granite Rocky Heath-Woodland

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
  - 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

Rainforests
- Cool Temperate Rainforests
  - 3048 Border Ranges Antarctic Beech Rainforest
  - 3050 Mount Bajimba Antarctic Beech Rainforest
  - 3051 Mount Royal Range Cool Temperate Rainforest
  - 3052 Northern Escarpment Antarctic Beech Rainforest
  - 3053 Northern Escarpment Sassafras Rainforest
- Dry Rainforests
  - 2079 Blakes Wattle - Wilga - Wild Quince - Kurrajong thickets, NSW North Coast Bioregion and New England Tablelands Bioregion
  - 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3059 Clarence Lowland Riparian Red Gum Wet Forest
  - 3061 Clarence-Richmond Riverine Rainforest
  - 3065 Far North Basalt Gully Dry Rainforest
  - 3066 Far North Floodplain Dry Rainforest
  - 3068 Far North Grey Myrtle Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3070 Far North Hinterland Kamala-Coogera Dry Rainforest
  - 3064 Far North Hoop Pine Dry Rainforest
  - 3072 Glenugie Peak Dry Rainforest
  - 3074 Hunter Coast Lowland Grey Myrtle Wet Forest
  - 3075 Hunter Valley Rusty Fig Dry Rainforest
  - 3076 Hunter Valley Whalebone Dry Rainforest
  - 3120 Hunter-Peel Ranges Dry Rainforest
  - 3083 Lower Hunter Tuckeroo Riparian Rainforest
  - 3086 Lower North Hinterland Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3089 Lower North Waterhousea Riparian Rainforest
  - 3091 Lower North Waterhousea-Water Gum Rainforest
  - 3092 Lower Richmond Floodplain Waterhousea Forest
  - 3010 Lower Richmond Lowland Hills Dry Rainforest
  - 3469 Macleay Gorges Low Scrubby Dry Rainforest
  - 3093 Mooball Dry Rainforest
  - 2068 Moreton Bay Fig - Myrtle Ebony dry vine rainforest on sandstone at Pillar Rock, east of Grafton, South Eastern Queensland Bioregion
  - 3097 Northern Escarpment Dry Rainforest
  - 3098 Northern Escarpment Grey Myrtle Gully Rainforest
  - 3099 Northern Escarpment Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
  - 3101 Northern Hinterland Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
  - 3151 Northwest Sydney Sandstone Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
  - 3103 Nymboida Water Gum-Myrtle Riparian Forest
  - 3104 Richmond Valley Riparian Waterhousea Forest
  - 3118 Yuraygir Range Gully Dry Rainforest
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- Littoral Rainforests
  - 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
  - 3123 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Littoral Rainforest
  - 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
  - 3134 Illawarra Seacliffs Littoral Rainforest
  - 3129 Mid North Sands Littoral Rainforest
  - 3130 Mid North Tuckeroo-Paperbark Littoral Wet Forest
  - 3131 Myall-Wallis Lakes Littoral Rainforest
  - 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
  - 3133 Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
  - 3135 Tomaree Headland Littoral Rainforest
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- Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
  - 3025 Central Coast Gallery Rainforest
  - 3026 Comboyne Plateau Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3027 Gibraltar Range Tea-tree-Phebalium Shrubland
  - 1529 Lilly Pilly - Coachwood gully warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
  - 3029 Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
  - 3031 Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
  - 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
  - 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
  - 3034 Northern Gorges Riparian Rainforest
  - 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 1523 Sassafras - Prickly Ash - Lilly Pilly warm temperate rainforest on ranges of the Barrington Tops and lower North Coast
  - 3037 Sydney Basin Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3038 Sydney Coastal Coachwood Gallery Rainforest
  - 3040 Sydney Coastal Foreshores Gully Rainforest
  - 3039 Sydney Coastal Lilly Pilly-Palm Gallery Rainforest
  - 3041 Sydney Sandstone Coachwood-Grey Myrtle Rainforest
  - 3042 Tenterfield Rocky Gully Rainforest
  - 3044 Watchimbark Serpentinite Lilly Pilly-Fig Rainforest
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- Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
  - 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
  - 3046 Southeast Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3047 Sydney Montane Basalt Rainforest
- Subtropical Rainforests
  - 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
  - 4105 Border Ranges Red Carabeen Rainforest
  - 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
  - 3005 Far North Floodplain Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3007 Far North Lowland Black Bean Riverine Rainforest
  - 3009 Far North Lowland Palm Gully Rainforest
  - 3008 Far North Lowland Sub-Littoral Rainforest
  - 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3006 Far North Riverine Bangalow Palm Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3012 Far North Waterhousea Riparian 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
  - 3002 Lower Richmond Hills Dry-Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3015 Lower Richmond Sandflat Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3016 Lower Tweed Hills Subtropical Dry Rainforest
  - 3017 Mid North Lowland Floodplain Rainforest
  - 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3100 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Dendrocnide Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3022 Port Macquarie Coastal Subtropical Rainforest
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- Western Vine Thickets
  - 3119 Upper Hunter White Box Vine Thicket

Saline wetlands
- Mangrove Swamps
  - 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- 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
  - 3235 Hunter Escarpment Enriched Moist Forest
  - 3237 Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
  - 3238 Hunter Range Colluvial Apple-Gum Forest
  - 3239 Hunter Range Sheltered Grey Gum Forest
  - 3152 Hunter Range Turpentine-Grey Myrtle Gully Forest
  - 3236 Hunter Valley Hills Wet Vine Forest
  - 3285 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3240 Lower North Escarpment Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
  - 3243 Lower North Sheltered Valley Red Gum Forest
  - 3244 Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
  - 3241 Lower North White Mahogany-Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3094 Mount Pikapene Steel Box Wet Forest
  - 3246 Mount Warning Caldera Wet Grassy Forest
  - 3247 North Brother Rocky Slopes Moist 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
  - 3252 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Mahogany Grassy Forest
  - 3253 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Turpentine Mesic Forest
  - 3254 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
  - 3170 Northern Hinterland White Mahogany Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3255 Nymboida Acacia blakei Shrubland
  - 3256 Rivertree Creekflat Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3258 Sydney Basin Creekflat Blue Gum-Apple Forest
  - 3263 Watagan Range Turpentine-Mahogany Grassy Forest
  - 3245 West Mount Royal Slopes Grassy Forest
  - 3179 Yessabah Limestone Moist Forest
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- Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3277 Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3146 Dorrigo Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
  - 3279 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
  - 3280 Far North Escarpment Gorges Blackbutt Forest
  - 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
  - 3289 West Barrington Granitoid Outcrop Forest
  - 3290 Western Guy Fawkes Plateau Moist Gum Forest
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Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3136 Blue Gum High Forest
  - 3137 Blue Mountains Enriched Blue Gum Moist Forest
  - 3138 Blue Mountains Wet Gully Forest
  - 3139 Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
  - 3141 Central Coast Dolerite Hills Wet Forest
  - 3058 Clarence Gorges Rocky Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3142 Clarence Lowland Sandstone Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3060 Clarence Lowland Waterhousea Riparian 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
  - 3067 Far North Floodplain Wet Layered Forest
  - 3149 Far North Hinterland Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3073 Hastings Valley Grey Gum-Grey Box Wet Forest
  - 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
  - 3084 Lower North Brown Myrtle Wet Forest
  - 3157 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Wet Forest
  - 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
  - 3087 Lower North Ranges Riparian Turpentine Forest
  - 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3088 Lower North Valleys Red Gum Wet Forest
  - 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
  - 3162 Mid North Lowland Flooded Gum-Palm Wet Forest
  - 4043 Mid North Lowland Riparian 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
  - 3176 Sydney Enriched Sandstone Moist Forest
  - 3177 Tweed Valley Lowland Wet Forest
  - 3178 Washpool Outcrops White-topped Box Forest
  - 3180 Yuraygir Range Brush Box-Tallowwood Gully Forest
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- Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 931 Messmate - Mountain Gum tall moist forest of the far southern New England Tableland Bioregion
  - 3201 Mid North Escarpment Blue Gum Moist Forest
  - 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
  - 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
  - 3208 Northern Escarpment Rocky Blackbutt Scrub Woodland
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