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Threatened species

False Water-rat - South Eastern Queensland: 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 South Eastern Queensland Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Burringbar-Conondale Ranges Predicted < 50 m asl
Sunshine Coast-Gold Coast Lowlands Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the False Water-rat - 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.

  • 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