Nature conservation

Threatened species

Broad-headed Snake - Sydney Basin: 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 Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Burragorang Known None
Cumberland Known the south west margins of the sub-region
Ettrema Known None
Illawarra Known None
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 Broad-headed Snake - 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)
    • 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