Nature conservation

Threatened species

Western Blue-tongued Lizard - Darling Riverine Plains: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Tiliqua occipitalis
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 15 Oct 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Western Blue-tongued Lizard 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
Menindee Predicted None
Wilcannia Plains Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Western Blue-tongued Lizard - 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.

  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Dune Mallee Woodlands
      • 172 Deep sand mallee of irregular dunefields of the semi-arid (warm) zone
      • 171 Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
      • 21 Slender Cypress Pine - Sugarwood - Western Rosewood open woodland on sandy rises mainly in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 631 White Cypress Pine - Western Rosewood - spinifex grass open woodland on sand-dunes in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
      • 142 Broombush shrubland in the mallee landscapes of the temperate and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
      • 174 Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain 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
    • Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
      • 57 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion