Last updated:
28 Nov 2023
Distribution of the species within this region
The Striped Legless Lizard is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Striped Legless Lizard - Sydney Basin 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 (shrubby sub-formation)
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 1655 Grey Box - Slaty Box shrub - grass woodland on sandstone slopes of the upper Hunter and Sydney Basin
- 617 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - box - Mock Olive shrubby open forest mainly on basalt slopes over sandstone in the upper Hunter Valley, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Sydney Basin Bioregion
- 1176 Slaty Box - Grey Gum shrubby woodland on footslopes of the upper Hunter Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
- Grasslands
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
- 894 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Eastern Highlands Bi
- 895 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland on steep sites in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Easte
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- Western Slopes Grasslands
- 320 Kangaroo Grass - Redleg Grass forb-rich temperate tussock grassland of the northern Monaro, ACT and upper Lachlan River regions of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bi
- 1698 Plains grass; Purple wiregrass; Wallaby Grass grassland on basalt soils of the Merriwa plateau
- Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
- 1696 Blakely's Red Gum - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of central and upper Hunter
- 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
- 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
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- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
- 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
- 3366 Central Tableland Clay Apple Box Grassy Forest
- 3367 Central Tableland Granites Grassy Box Woodland
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- Subalpine Woodlands
- 3383 Kosciuszko Subalpine Hollows Black Sally 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
- 3347 Southern Tableland Creekflat Ribbon Gum Forest
- 3348 Southern Tableland Granites Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
- 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
- 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 277 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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