Last updated:
01 Dec 2017
Distribution of the species within this region
The a whip snake is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Channel Country Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the a whip snake - Channel Country is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
- Gibber Transition Shrublands
- 197 Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
- 118 Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
- 131 Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
- 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
- North-west Plain Shrublands
- 144 Leopardwood low woodland mainly on clayey soils in the semi-arid zone
- 125 Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- 213 Murrays Wattle sparse shrubland/forbland on sand rises of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- 264 Supplejack woodland of the NSW north-western semi-arid plains
- Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
- 140 Broombush shrubland in dunefields of the arid climate zone
- 129 Cabbage-tree Wattle shrubland of the inland plains and drainage lines
- 199 Hooked Needlewood - Needlewood - Mulga - Turpentine Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid plains
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- Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
- 127 Bastard Mulga tall open shrubland of the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
- 60 Black Oak - Western Rosewood - bluebush/saltbush low sparse woodland on gravel downs in the arid climate zone
- 169 Curly Mallee - bluebush open woodland of the arid zone
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- Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
- Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
- 153 Black Bluebush low open shrubland of the alluvial plains and sandplains of the arid and semi-arid zones
- 222 Low Bluebush - Bladder Saltbush open shrubland of the arid zone
- 152 Lunette chenopod shrubland mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- 154 Pearl Bluebush low open shrubland of the arid and semi-arid plains
- 151 Sandhill Cane Grass hummock grassland on siliceous sands on dune crests of the arid zone
- Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
- 156 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
- 155 Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
- 224 Cotton Bush - copperburr open shrubland of the arid climate zone
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- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
- 212 Chenopod low open shrubland - ephemeral partly derived forbland saline wetland on occasionally flooded pale clay scalds in the NSW North Western Plains
- 158 Old Man Saltbush - mixed chenopod shrubland of the semi-arid hot (persistently dry) and arid climate zones (north-western NSW)
- Grasslands
- Riverine Plain Grasslands
- 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
- Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
- 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
- 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- 52 Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- 242 Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains
- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Desert Woodlands
- 100 Desert Bloodwood - Mulga low woodland of the semi-arid plains
- 133 Western Bloodwood - Whitewood low open woodland on Tibooburra Granite
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- 257 Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW
- 122 Gum Coolabah woodland on slopes of sandstone ranges in the Paroo - Darling region, mainly Mulga Lands Bioregion
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
- 23 Yarran tall open shrubland of the sandplains and plains of the semi-arid (warm) and arid climate zones
- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
- 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
- 59 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
- Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
- 117 Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
- 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
- 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains