Nature conservation

Threatened species

Painted Burrowing Frog - Darling Riverine Plains: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Neobatrachus pictus
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Painted Burrowing Frog is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Darling Riverine Plains Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Great Darling Anabranch Predicted None
Pooncarie-Darling Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Painted Burrowing Frog - Darling Riverine Plains is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • 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
      • 152 Lunette chenopod shrubland mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 154 Pearl Bluebush low open shrubland of the arid and semi-arid plains
    • Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
      • 196 Australian Boxthorn open shrubland in the semi-arid or arid climate zones
      • 254 Black Oak - Bladder Saltbush on light clays in the arid zone
      • 216 Black Roly Poly low open shrubland of the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 157 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on alluvial plains in the semi-arid (warm) zone including Riverina Bioregion
      • 163 Dillon Bush (Nitre Bush) shrubland of the semi-arid and arid zones
      • 159 Old Man Saltbush shrubland mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (south western NSW)
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 11 River Red Gum - Lignum very tall open forest or woodland wetland on floodplains of semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
      • 24 Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
      • 240 River Coobah tall shrubland wetland of the floodplains in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 181 Common Reed - Bushy Groundsel aquatic tall reedland grassland wetland of inland river systems
      • 182 Cumbungi rushland wetland of shallow semi-permanent water bodies and inland watercourses
      • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
      • 12 Shallow marsh wetland of regularly flooded depressions on floodplains mainly in the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  • Grasslands
    • Riverine Plain Grasslands
      • 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
      • 1203 Speargrass natural grassland of the sandplains of the Murray Darling Bioregion
  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
      • 13 Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 630 Black Box - Silver Saltbush chenopod open woodland on terrace rises on alluvial plains in the lower Darling River and lower Murray River region of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 15 Black Box open woodland wetland with chenopod understorey mainly on the outer floodplains in south-western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
  • 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
    • Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
      • 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
      • 190 Mallee Box open woodland mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
      • 221 Black Oak - Pearl Bluebush open woodland of the sandplains of the semi-arid warm and arid climate zones
      • 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 252 Sugarwood open woodland of the inland plains mainly Murray Darling Depression Bioregion