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Threatened species

New Holland Mouse - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pseudomys novaehollandiae
Conservation status in NSW:
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Last updated: 20 Dec 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The New Holland Mouse 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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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Burragorang Predicted None
Cumberland Known None
Ettrema Predicted None
Hunter Known None
Illawarra Predicted North of Coledale
Jervis Known North of Lake Conjola
Kerrabee Known None
Moss Vale Known None
Pittwater Known None
Sydney Cataract Known None
Wollemi Known None
Wyong Known None
Yengo Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the New Holland Mouse - 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 (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3421 Clarence Sandstone Pink Bloodwood Grassy Forest
      • 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
    • Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3436 Hunter Coast Sandy Creekflat Low Paperbark Scrub
      • 4157 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Singleton Mallee
      • 3442 Lower Hunter Lowland Ironbark-Paperbark Forest
      • 3446 Lower North Foothills Ironbark-Box-Gum Grassy Forest
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 3503 Northeast New England Granites Stringybark Forest
    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3457 Curricabark Serpentinite Mallee Spinifex Scrub
      • 3461 Macleay Gorges Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3463 Northern Gorges Granite Stringybark-Apple Grassy Forest
      • 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
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    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 453 Granite gorge Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Oleander Wattle low open woodland in the Warialda region
      • 517 Grey Box shrubby open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 527 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion and northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 543 Rough-barked Apple - White Box - Rusty Fig shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregions
      • 228 Semi-mesic woodland on basalt hills of the dry subtropical climate zone, north western slopes of NSW
      • 549 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- White Box shrubby open forest mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 598 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Box - White Cypress Pine viney scrub woodland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 413 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - box dry shrub grass woodland of the Pilliga Scrub - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 595 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - tea tree shrubby woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 594 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine shrubby open forest of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1165 Silvertop Stringybark - Orange Gum shrubby open forest of the central parts of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 573 Stringybark - spinifex woodland associated serpentinite outcrops in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 562 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 596 Tumbledown Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 597 White Box - cypress pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark shrub grass open forest / woodland of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 587 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple shrubby open forest in the Kaputar area of Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 588 White Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby hills open forest mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 591 White Box shrubby open forest on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 429 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box - Silver-leaved Ironbark viney shrub woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 564 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Caley's Ironbark open forest of the central Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 418 White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark - Wilga shrub grass woodland of the Narrabri-Yetman region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 290 Red Stringybark - Red Box - Long-leaved Box - Inland Scribbly Gum tussock grass - shrub low open forest on hills in the southern part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 1095 Red Stringybark woodland of the dry slopes of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
      • 3548 Far North Sands Scribbly Gum Heathy Forest
      • 3549 Lower North Sandplain Heathy Forest
      • 3552 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Stringybark Forest
      • 3553 Northern Sands Bloodwood-Swamp Turpentine Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
      • 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
      • 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 609 Black Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on Mole Granite of the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 514 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - Round-leaved Gum shrubby riparian forest in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 504 Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple - stringybark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 674 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark open forest of northern parts of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 505 Black Cypress Pine - Tumbledown Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Stringybark She Oak open forest on acid volcanics of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 508 Blakely's Red Gum - Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 512 Caleys Ironbark - Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on acid volcanics of the northern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 523 McKies Stringybark - Western New England Blackbutt - Rough-barked Apple open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 528 Mugga Ironbark - Blakely's Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 566 Mugga Ironbark open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 536 Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on acid volcanics of the north western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 537 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - Red Stringybark open forest of the southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 551 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark - Tenterfield Woollybutt shrubby open forest of the Horton River area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 556 Orange Gum - Caleys Ironbark - stringybark shrubby open forest of the northern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 538 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely’s Red Gum open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1382 Rough-barked Apple - Red Stringybark shrubby open forest of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 545 Round-leaved Gum - Broad-leaved Stringybark grassy forest on metasediments in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 552 Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple - Eucalyptus quinniorum shrubby open forest of southern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 578 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 579 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby open forest on rhyolite geology of the Nandewar Bioregion and north west New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 580 Tumbledown Red Gum - Caleys Ironbark shrubby open forest on Rock of Gibraltar in the northern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 584 Western New England Blackbutt - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Stringybark She Oak open forest of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 585 Western New England Blackbutt - Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 557 Western New England Blackbutt - Round-leaved Gum - Stringybark shrubby open forest in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 558 Western New England Blackbutt - stringybark open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1296 Western New England Blackbutt shrubby open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1341 Youman's Stringybark - New England Blackbutt - Narrow-leaved Black Peppermint - Eucalyptus subtilior open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • 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
      • 3585 Morton Plateau Shrub Forest
      • 3589 Southern Highlands Escarpment Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3590 Southern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3595 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Gully Forest
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    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
      • 3630 Kurri Sand Heathy Woodland
      • 3633 Mellong Sand Swamp Woodland
      • 3634 Quorrobolong Sand Flats Forest
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 417 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - red gum +/- White Bloodwood shrubby open forest on hills of the southern Pilliga, Coonabarabran and Garawilla regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 673 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Stringybark heathy woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 325 Blue-leaved Stringybark open forest of the Mudgee region NSW central western slopes
      • 333 Bottlebrush riparian shrubland wetland of the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 471 Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - ironbark low woodland on sandstone hillcrests in the Dubbo - Gilgandra region, south-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 327 Inland Scribbly Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Ironbark open forest of the NSW central western slopes
      • 477 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine - Red Ironbark open forest on sandstone hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 322 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine hillslope shrub-tussock grass open forest on mainly sandstone ranges in the NSW central western slopes
      • 379 Inland Scribbly Gum - White Bloodwood - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby sandstone woodland mainly of the Warrumbungle NP - Pilliga region in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 324 Inland Scribbly Gum grassy open forest on hills in the Mudgee Region, NSW central western slopes
      • 330 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum - Red Ironbark woodland on hillslopes and in valleys on ranges in the NSW central western slopes
      • 470 Mugga Ironbark - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Buloke - Black Cypress Pine shrub grass open forest in the Goonoo forests and surrounding region, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 358 Mugga Ironbark - Red Box - White Box - Black Cypress Pine tall woodland on rises and hills in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 468 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- Blakely's Red Gum shrubby open forest on sandstone low hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Goonoo)
      • 398 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Buloke tall open forest on lower slopes and flats in the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding forests in the central north Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 473 Red gum - Rough-barked Apple - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine grassy open forest on flats and drainage lines in the Goonoo and surrounding forests, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 399 Red gum - Rough-barked Apple +/- tea tree sandy creek woodland (wetland) in the Pilliga - Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 323 Red Stringybark - Inland Scribbly Gum open forest on steep hills in the Mudgee - northern section of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 354 Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box - Black Cypress Pine - grassy/shrubby low woodland on ranges, central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 321 Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box - Black Cypress Pine shrub/grass woodland on siliceous sedimentary ranges in the upper NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 440 Red Stringybark - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - hill red gum sandstone woodland of southern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 420 Red Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple +/- Nortons Box open forest on hillslopes in the Warrumbungle NP - Coolah regions
      • 331 Red Stringybark woodland on hillslopes, northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 401 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine woodland on sandy flats, mainly in the Pilliga Scrub region
      • 425 Spur-wing Wattle heath on sandstone substrates in the Goonoo - Pilliga forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 472 Thyme Honey-myrtle - red gum - Mugga Ironbark shrubland / woodland in impeded drainage flats or depressions in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1278 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Currawang woodland of ridges and rocky hills mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 1279 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Box low woodland of hills of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 405 White Bloodwood - Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby sandstone woodland of the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding regions
      • 469 White Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Buloke grassy open forest of the Dubbo region, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 414 White Mallee - Dwyer's Red Gum mallee heath on sands in the Goonoo - Pilliga region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4046 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
      • 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
      • 4048 Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
      • 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
      • 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
      • 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
      • 4008 Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
      • 4012 Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 1127 Sandstone cliff-face soak
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
      • 3269 Shoalhaven Lowland Spotted Gum-Paperbark Forest
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
      • 567 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Yellow Box shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 533 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on granitic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 539 Rough-barked Apple - Cabbage Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 3345 New England Snow Gum-Black Sally Woodland
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
      • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 3848 Eastern New England Rock Oak Heath
      • 884 Heathy shrubland on granitic outcrops of the central and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 885 Heathy shrublands on rocky outcrops of the western slopes
      • 521 Mount Kaputar Kunzea - Five Star Heath - Spur-wing Wattle shrubland on siliceous outcrops mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 535 Orange Gum - Black Cypress Pine heathy woodland on outcropping granite in the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 561 Shrublands on acid volcanic outcrops in the Severn River region of the western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 574 Tea-tree riparian shrubland / heathland wetland on drainage areas of Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 499 Tree Violet - cough bush basalt scree slopes shrubland of the Liverpool Range - Wollemi region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3852 Urbenville Plugs Rockplate Shrub Woodland
      • 4130 Warra Rockplate Shrubland
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    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 636 Allocasuarina nana heathland at Genowlan Point, Sydney Basin Bioregion
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
      • 3805 Southern Sandplain Heath