Conservation status in NSW:
Last updated:
08 Oct 2020
Distribution of the species within this region
The Black Flying-fox is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Black Flying-fox - Sydney Basin is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
- 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
- 1603 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bull Oak - Grey Box shrub - grass open forest of the central and lower Hunter
- 1604 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box - Spotted Gum shrub - grass woodland of the central and lower Hunter
- 1691 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box grassy woodland of the central and upper Hunter
- Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
- 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
- 1543 Rusty Fig - Native Quince - Native Olive dry rainforest of the Central Hunter Valley
- Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
- 1529 Lilly Pilly - Coachwood gully warm temperate rainforest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
- 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
- Subtropical Rainforests
- 845 Giant Stinging Tree - Fig dry subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
- 1575 Messmate - Forest Ribbon Gum - New England Blackbutt shrub - grass tall open forest of Barrington Tops and Northern Tablelands escarpment
- 1563 Sydney Blue Gum – New England Blackbutt - Whitetop Box moist shrub – grass tall open forest of the lower North Coast
- Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
- 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
- 1577 New England Blackbutt - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy tall open forest of the Northern Tablelands escarpment