Nature conservation

Threatened species

Giant Dragonfly - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Petalura gigantea
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 04 Mar 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Giant Dragonfly is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Karuah Manning Known None
Macleay Hastings Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Giant Dragonfly - NSW North Coast is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4030 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4032 Far North Floodplain Red Gum Sedge Forest
      • 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
      • 4036 Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
      • 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 4055 South Coast Upper Floodplain Wetland
      • 4060 Yengo Creekflat Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
      • 3991 Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
      • 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
      • 3995 Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
      • 3997 Hunter Coast Sandplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
      • 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
      • 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
      • 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
      • 4010 Sydney Hinterland Creekflat Paperbark Scrub
      • 4012 Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3958 Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
      • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
      • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
      • 3964 Far North Floodplain Fern-Forb Wetland
      • 3965 Far North Floodplain Forb-Sedge Wetland
      • 3973 Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
      • 3966 Foredune Swale Marsh
      • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
      • 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
      • 3914 Northern Sands Chorizandra Sedgeland
      • 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
      • 3970 Northern Sands Water Couch Wetland
      • 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
      • 3974 Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3957 South Coast Sands Shrub Swamp
      • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
      • 3976 Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
      • 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
      • 3977 Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
      • 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3894 Blue Mountains Creekline Shrub Swamp
      • 3929 Blue Mountains Swamp Heath
      • 3895 Budawang Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3896 Budderoo-Morton Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3920 Coastal Clifftop Shrubby Marsh
      • 3921 Coastal Sydney Sand Saw-sedge Wet Shrubland
      • 3903 Far Southeast Lowland Heath Swamp
      • 3902 Far Southeast Shrubby Swamp Woodland
      • 3905 Jervis Bay Headland Dune Wet Heath
      • 3897 Lower Clarence Sandy Creekflat Sedgeland
      • 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
      • 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
      • 3909 Mellong Creekflat Wet Heath
      • 3911 Northern Sand Swale Fernland
      • 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
      • 3900 Northern Sandplain Saw-sedge-Fern Swamp Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
      • 3916 Sandstone Cliff Soak
      • 3919 Southern Highlands Wet Swamp Heath
      • 3922 Sydney Coastal Sand Swamp Scrub
      • 3923 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Creekline Swamp Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
      • 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
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    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3928 Blue Mountains Damp Coral Fern Swamp
      • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
      • 3934 Eastern New England Granite Wet Heath
      • 3940 Liverpool Range Swampy Tea-tree Shrubland
      • 3941 Megalong Valley Fringing Swamp Scrub
      • 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
      • 3944 New England Tableland Carex Fens
      • 3945 Newnes Plateau Shrub Swamp
      • 3946 Newnes Plateau Swamp Woodland
      • 3937 Northern Escarpment Granitoid Wet Heath
      • 3947 Northern Escarpment Montane Swamp Forest
      • 582 Sedgeland fens wetland of impeded drainage of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3949 Southern Highlands Sand Swamp Sedgeland
      • 3950 Southern Highlands Sand Swamp Woodland
      • 3951 Southern Tableland Ranges Boggy Open Woodland
      • 3954 Western Central Tableland Upland Swamp
      • 3956 Western New England Wet Tea-tree Scrub
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