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Threatened species

Broad-headed Snake - NSW South Western Slopes: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Hoplocephalus bungaroides
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Last updated: 23 Feb 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Broad-headed Snake is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW South Western Slopes Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Capertee Valley Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Broad-headed Snake - NSW South Western Slopes 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)
    • South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1675 Scribbly Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bossiaea rhombifolia heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3658 South Coast Hinterland Bloodwood Forest
      • 3661 South Coast Hinterland Yertchuk Forest
      • 3667 Southern Highlands Enriched Sandstone Forest
      • 3668 Southern Highlands Scribbly Gum Forest
    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3580 Burralow Swamp Woodland
      • 3585 Morton Plateau Shrub Forest
      • 3586 Northern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3589 Southern Highlands Escarpment Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3590 Southern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
      • 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
      • 3597 Watagan Escarpment Rocky Shrub Forest
      • 3598 Woronora Plateau Scribbly Gum Woodland
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3599 Blue Mountains Peppermint Shrub Forest
      • 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3603 Hawkesbury Escarpment Bloodwood Forest
      • 3609 Kangaroo Valley Colluvial Scribbly Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 3611 Nattai Plateau Bloodwood-Peppermint Forest
      • 3612 Nattai Plateau Peppermint Gully Forest
      • 3613 Shoalhaven Sandstone Cliffline Woodland
      • 3614 Southern Highlands Sandstone Peppermint 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
      • 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
      • 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
      • 3622 Sydney Hinterland Yellow Bloodwood Woodland
      • 1631 Sydney Peppermint - Narrow-leaved Stringybark semi-mesic open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 3623 Western Blue Mountains Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3625 Wingecarribee Sandstone Shrub Forest
      • 3626 Wollemi Plateau Stringybark-Grey Gum Forest
      • 3627 Wollemi Plateau Yertchuk-Stringybark Woodland
      • 1667 Yertchuk - Grey Gum heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3686 Mount Airly Sandstone Forest
      • 3688 Newnes Plateau Silvertop Ash Woodland
      • 3689 Shoalhaven Escarpment Peppermint-Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 1630 Sydney Peppermint - Grey Gum heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 3694 Upper Blue Mountains Ridgetop Woodland
      • 3695 Western Blue Mountains Peppermint Sheltered Forest
      • 3696 Western Blue Mountains Rocky Scribbly Gum Woodland
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    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3632 Mellong Sand Scribbly Gum Woodland
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1709 Broom Bush - Allocasuarina gymnanthera heathy woodland on sandstone outcrops of the Sydney Basin
      • 1671 Brown Bloodwood - Dwyer's Red Gum - Red Ironbark heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1676 Grey Gum - Scribbly Gum - Black Pine heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 889 Inland Scribbly Gum - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest on hills of western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3762 Northern Wollemi Rocky Stringybark Forest
      • 1674 Red Ironbark - Brown Bloodwood - Black Pine heathy open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1672 Red Ironbark - Grey Gum - Black Pine heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1669 Red Ironbark - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Brown Bloodwood shrubby open forest on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 1711 Tantoon - Lepyrodia leptocaulis shrubland on sandstone drainage lines of the Sydney Basin
      • 1663 Tumbledown Red Gum - Spinifex grass heathy low open woodland on sandstone slopes of the Sydney Basin
      • 3766 Ulan Sandstone Damp Shrubland
      • 3781 Ulan Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Woodland
      • 3771 Western Hunter Broombush Mallee Shrubland
      • 3772 Western Hunter Caleys Ironbark Low Forest
      • 3773 Western Hunter Currawang Low Forest
      • 3774 Western Hunter Dwyers Red Gum-Pine Woodland
      • 3775 Western Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 3777 Western Hunter Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3778 Western Hunter Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3782 Western Hunter Rockplate Micromyrtus Heath
      • 3783 Western Hunter Rocky Sandstone Ironbark Forest
      • 3784 Western Hunter Rocky Scrub
      • 3786 Western Hunter Scribbly Gum-Pine Woodland
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  • Rainforests
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3110 Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
      • 3106 South Coast Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 3037 Sydney Basin Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 3041 Sydney Sandstone Coachwood-Grey Myrtle Rainforest
      • 3043 Upper Blue Mountains Gully Rainforest