Nature conservation

Threatened species

Giant Dragonfly - Sydney Basin: 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 Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Burragorang Known None
Ettrema Known None
Jervis Known None
Kerrabee Predicted None
Moss Vale Known None
Pittwater Known None
Sydney Cataract Known None
Wollemi Known None
Wyong Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Giant Dragonfly - Sydney Basin 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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