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Threatened species

Malleefowl - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Leipoa ocellata
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Last updated: 28 Nov 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The Malleefowl is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Brigalow Belt South Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Liverpool Plains Predicted None
Pilliga Known None
Pilliga Outwash Predicted None
Talbragar Valley Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Malleefowl - Brigalow Belt South 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)
    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
    • 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
      • 676 Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 713 Blue-leaved Ironbark heathy woodland of the southern part of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 746 Brown Bloodwood - cypress - ironbark heathy woodland in the Pilliga region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1671 Brown Bloodwood - Dwyer's Red Gum - Red Ironbark heathy woodland on sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
      • 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
      • 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
      • 255 Mugga Ironbark - Buloke - Pillga Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland on sandstone in the Dubbo region, south-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 956 Mugga Ironbark - Inland Grey Box shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 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
      • 343 Mugga Ironbark - Red Box - Red Stringybark - Western Grey Box grass/shrub woodland on metamorphic substrates in the Tarcutta - Gundagai region, NSW South Western Slopes 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
      • 217 Mugga Ironbark - Western Grey Box - cypress pine tall woodland on footslopes of low hills in the 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)
      • 532 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby open forest in the Melville Range area of southern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 456 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Bloodwood - Red Stringybark woodland of the Garawilla - Liverpool Plains region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 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
      • 1381 Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South bioregion
      • 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
      • 1133 Scribbly Gum - Brown Bloodwood woodland on volcanic slopes of the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 110 Western Grey Box - Cypress Pine shrubby woodland on stony footslopes in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Riverina 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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  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Dune Mallee Woodlands
      • 172 Deep sand mallee of irregular dunefields of the semi-arid (warm) zone
      • 191 Snap and Rattle Mallee - Moonah open mallee shrubland in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 171 Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
      • 177 Blue Mallee - Bull Mallee - Green Mallee very tall mallee shrubland of the West Wyalong region, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 178 Broombush - Green Mallee - Blue Mallee very tall shrubland on stony rises in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 186 Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby low woodland on rocky hills mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 257 Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW
      • 184 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang low shrub-grass woodland of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 185 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby woodland mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 176 Green Mallee - White Cypress Pine very tall mallee woodland on gravel rises mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 256 Green Mallee tall mallee woodland on rises in the Pilliga - Goonoo regions, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 180 Grey Mallee - White Cypress Pine woodland on rocky hills of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 328 Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 239 Red Stringybark - Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine woodland on siliceous ranges in the Lockhart to Griffith regions NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 175 Ridge mallee woodland on hills of meta-sediments and volcanics, eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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    • Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
      • 142 Broombush shrubland in the mallee landscapes of the temperate and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 355 Bull Mallee - White Mallee tall mallee woodland on red sandy loam soils in the central western slopes of NSW
      • 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
      • 474 Dwyer's Red Gum - she oak mallee shrubland on eolian sand in the Gilgandra region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 174 Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 190 Mallee Box open woodland mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 193 Red Mallee - White Mallee extremely tall tree mallee on silty-loam-clay soils of central south-western NSW
      • 173 Sandplain mallee of central NSW
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