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Threatened species

Tusked Frog population in the Nandewar and New England Tableland Bioregions - Nandewar: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Adelotus brevis - endangered population
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered Population
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 14 Oct 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Tusked Frog population in the Nandewar and New England Tableland Bioregions is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Nandewar Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Inverell Basalts Predicted None
Kaputar Predicted None
Nandewar Northern Complex Known None
Peel Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Tusked Frog population in the Nandewar and New England Tableland Bioregions - Nandewar is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
      • 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 3502 Maryland Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3503 Northeast New England Granites Stringybark Forest
      • 3504 Northeast New England Ranges Messmate Forest
      • 3505 Northeast New England Stringybark Grassy Forest
      • 3506 Stanthorpe Plateau Flats Gum-Stringybark Woodland
      • 3507 Tenterfield Plateau Stringybark Sheltered Forest
      • 3508 Western Guy Fawkes Plateau White Gum Flats Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite Grassy Forest
      • 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3457 Curricabark Serpentinite Mallee Spinifex Scrub
      • 3458 Gibraltar Range Gorge Stringybark Forest
      • 3459 Koreelah Ironbark Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3467 Lower North Serpentinite Red Gum Woodland
      • 3470 Macleay Gorges Riverflat Grassy Forest
      • 3461 Macleay Gorges Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3462 Northern Gorges Blakes Wattle Rock Scrub
      • 3463 Northern Gorges Granite Stringybark-Apple Grassy Forest
      • 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
      • 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3466 Northern Gorges Red Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3460 Northern Gorges Sheltered Grassy Forest
      • 3468 Nymboida Rhyolite Moist Forest
      • 3471 Upper Guy Fawkes Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
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    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 3513 Kaputar White Box-Apple Sheltered Forest
      • 3514 Nandewar Hills Apple-White Box Shrub-Grass Woodland
      • 3515 Nandewar Serpentinite Red Stringybark Woodland
      • 4148 Northwest Apple-White Pine Riparian Grassy Forest
      • 3516 Northwest Black Pine-Ironbark Forest
      • 3517 Northwest Creekflat Blakelys Red Gum Shrub-Grass Forest
      • 3518 Northwest Pine-Ironbark Grassy Woodland
      • 3519 Northwest Ranges Rocky Tumbledown Gum Scrub
      • 4149 Northwest Red Gum-Apple-White Pine Grassy Woodland
      • 3522 Northwest White Box Spinifex Woodland
      • 3521 Northwest White Box Woodland
      • 4150 Northwest White Box-White Pine Forest
      • 3523 Northwest White Pine-Box Woodland
      • 4151 Northwest White Pine-Silver-leaved Ironbark Forest
      • 3526 Warrumbungle Rockplate Scrub
      • 3511 Western New England White Pine-Tumbledown Gum Woodland
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3574 Northern Lowland Sandstones Dry Open Forest
    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3673 Chaelundi-Mann River Granite Scrub Woodland
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
      • 3675 Far North Peaks Scrub Woodland
      • 3677 Lower North Escarpment Rocky Shrub Woodland
      • 3678 Mount Munningyundo Rocky Shrubland
      • 1617 New England Blackbutt - Diehard Stringybark shrubby open forest on the Northern Tablelands escarpment and Barrington Tops
      • 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
      • 3681 Nymboida Rocky Slopes Low Forest
      • 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
      • 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
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    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3697 Bingara Tumbledown Gum Spinifex Woodland
      • 3713 Macintyre Hills Ironbark Shrub Forest
      • 3707 Mole River Blackbutt Woodland
      • 3708 Mole River Hills Wallangarra White Gum Woodland
      • 3717 Mole River Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Shrub Woodland
      • 3709 Moonbi Range Rocky Granite Woodland
      • 3699 Moredun Ranges Stringybark Exposed Forest
      • 3711 Northern New England Orange Gum Exposed Woodland
      • 3701 Northwest New England Creekflat Blakelys Red Gum Forest
      • 3703 Northwest New England Felsic Ironbark-Red Gum Gully Forest
      • 3700 Northwest New England Granite Blackbutt-Apple Forest
      • 3706 Northwest New England Laterite McKies Stringybark Forest
      • 3702 Northwest New England Ranges Caleys Ironbark Woodland
      • 3718 Northwest New England Rocky Riparian Forest
      • 3704 Northwest New England Stringybark-Pine Exposed Forest
      • 3716 Northwest New England Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Exposed Forest
      • 3714 Pindari Ironbark-Pine Exposed Woodland
      • 3715 Pindari Orange Gum Rocky Woodland
      • 3720 Torrington Riparian Forest-Scrub
      • 3722 Western New England Box-Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3724 Western New England Caleys Ironbark-Tumbledown Gum Forest
      • 3698 Western New England Granite Orange Gum Gully Woodland
      • 3726 Western New England Granite Pine-Stringybark-Gum Forest
      • 3705 Western New England Hills Apple-Stringybark Forest
      • 3728 Western New England Hills Blackbutt-Stringybark Forest
      • 3710 Western New England Hills Orange Gum-Ironbark Forest
      • 3723 Western New England Panic-Wiregrass Grassland
      • 3725 Western New England Ranges Orange Gum-Blackbutt Forest
      • 3855 Western New England Rocky Granite Low Woodland
      • 3727 Western New England Silvertop Stringybark Forest
      • 3729 Western New England Youmans Stringybark Shrub Forest
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    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
  • Forested wetlands
    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4064 Central Eastern Ranges River Oak Forest
      • 4065 Central Tableland Riverine Complex
      • 4066 Clarence Valley River Oak Wet Forest
      • 4069 Far North Creekline Wet Forest
      • 4070 Far North River Oak Wet Forest
      • 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
      • 4077 Northern Coastal River Oak Wet Forest
      • 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
      • 4079 Northern Hinterland Grassy River Oak Forest
      • 4076 Northwest Ranges River Oak Forest
      • 4080 Northwest River Oak-Apple Forest
      • 4081 Northwest River Oak-River Red Gum Forest
      • 4075 Northwest River Red Gum-River Oak Sheltered Forest
      • 84 River Oak - Rough-barked Apple - red gum - box riparian tall woodland (wetland) of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 486 River Oak moist riparian tall open forest of the upper Hunter Valley, including Liverpool Range
      • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
      • 4087 Upper Orara Riparian Wet Forest
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    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 4089 Namoi-Upper Hunter River Red Gum Forest
  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
      • 447 Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3926 Barrington Granodiorite Subalpine Swamp Woodland
      • 3927 Barrington Subalpine Swamp Meadow
      • 766 Carex sedgeland of the slopes and tablelands
      • 3934 Eastern New England Granite Wet Heath
      • 3935 Eastern New England Rocky Riparian Scrub
      • 3936 Ebor Basalt Wet Heath
      • 3940 Liverpool Range Swampy Tea-tree Shrubland
      • 607 Montane bogs on the western fall of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3933 New England Orange Gum Boggy Woodland
      • 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
      • 3944 New England Tableland Carex Fens
      • 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
      • 3954 Western Central Tableland Upland Swamp
      • 3955 Western New England Granites Riparian Scrub
      • 3956 Western New England Wet Tea-tree Scrub
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    • Montane Lakes
      • 3979 Northern Basalt Benches Intermittent Swamps
      • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands
  • Grasslands
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 569 Derived Snow Grass +/- Kangaroo Grass +/- Wild Sorghum tussock grassland of the NSW Northern Tablelands
      • 586 Snow Grass - Swamp Foxtail tussock grassland sedgeland of cold air drainage valleys of the New England Tableland Bioregion
  • Grassy woodlands
    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
      • 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
      • 501 Bendemeer White Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple +/- Moonbi Apple Box grassy open forest of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 510 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 734 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodlands of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 567 Broad-leaved Stringybark - Yellow Box shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3353 Guyra Silvertop Stringybark Moist Forest
      • 3354 Liverpool Range Box-Silvertop Stringybark Forest
      • 3355 Moonbi Range Stringybark-Yellow Box Forest
      • 3358 New England Fuzzy Box Grassy Forest
      • 3359 New England Hills Stringybark-Box Woodland
      • 533 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on granitic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3356 Northwest Ranges Apple-Stringybark Sheltered Forest
      • 571 Ribbon Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
      • 1118 Rough-barked Apple riparian forb/grass open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1171 Silvertop Stringybark grass/herb forest of the Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregion and western New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3361 Tenterfield Plateau Stringybark-Apple Forest
      • 3363 Western New England Blakelys Red Gum-Box Grassy Forest
      • 3357 Western New England Flats Apple-Box Grassy Forest
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3339 Guyra Basalt Snow Gum Woodland
      • 3342 Mount Kaputar Montane Box Forest
      • 3343 Mount Kaputar Montane Gum Forest
      • 606 Mountain Gum - Ribbon Gum open forest of drainage lines of the southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 525 Mountain Gum - Snow Gum grassy open forest at high altitudes in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 534 New England Peppermint grassy woodland on sedimentary or basaltic substrates of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3344 New England Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3345 New England Snow Gum-Black Sally Woodland
      • 3346 Northeast Plateau Snow Gum Valley Woodland
      • 554 Ribbon Gum - Mountain Gum - Snow Gum grassy open forest or woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1099 Ribbon Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Yellow Box grassy woodland/open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 599 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 451 Derived Spear Grass - Slender Bamboo Grass mixed tussock grassland mainly of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 847 Grey Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 516 Grey Box grassy woodland or open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3393 Northwest Basalt Box Plains Grass Woodland
      • 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
      • 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
      • 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
      • 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
      • 4147 Northwest White Box Sparse Grassy Woodland
      • 3397 Northwest Yellow Box Grassy Woodland
      • 511 Queensland Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Rats Tail Grass - spear grass - panic grass derived grassland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 544 Rough-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum riparian open forest / woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 589 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland on mainly clay loam soils on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1383 White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1329 Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion
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  • Heathlands
    • Northern Montane Heaths
      • 3821 Bulldog Geebung-Tea-tree Rocky Scrub
      • 3822 Carrai Slopes Rocky Scrub
      • 3823 Cascades Cypress-Tea-tree Riparian Forest
      • 3827 Eastern New England Leucogranite Mallee Scrub
      • 3848 Eastern New England Rock Oak Heath
      • 3829 Eastern New England Rocky Tea-tree Scrub
      • 3830 Far North Basalt Scarp Tea-tree Scrub
      • 3832 Far North Pomaderris notata Scrub
      • 3833 Gibraltar Range Rocky Shrubland
      • 3835 Mann River Tea-tree Scrub
      • 3825 Mid North Escarpment Rock Outcrop Scrub
      • 3836 Mole River Wattle-Tea-tree Rocky Scrub
      • 3838 Mount Kaputar Montane Rockplate Scrub
      • 3839 Mount Kaputar Slopes Stony Scrub
      • 3834 Mount Warning Caldera Tea-tree Rocky Scrub
      • 3840 Mount Warning Sheltered Spear-lily Scrub
      • 3841 Mount Warning Tea-tree Rocky Scrub
      • 3854 New England Rockplate Shrubland
      • 3842 Northeast New England Granites Outcrop Scrub
      • 3843 Northern Escarpment Tea-tree Rocky Scrub
      • 3844 Nymboida Granite Gorge Scrub
      • 3845 Tenterfield Granite Skeletal Shrubland
      • 3846 Tenterfield Plateau Kunzea Scrub
      • 3847 Timbarra Granite Rocky Heath-Woodland
      • 3850 Tweed Caldera Outcrops Grassy Scrub
      • 3851 Upper Hunter Hills Rocky Scrub
      • 3852 Urbenville Plugs Rockplate Shrub Woodland
      • 3853 West Tenterfield Ignimbrite Rockplate Scrub
      • 3828 Western New England Felsic Rock Shrubland
      • 3856 Woodenbong Plugs Rocky Scrub
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  • Rainforests
    • Cool Temperate Rainforests
      • 3050 Mount Bajimba Antarctic Beech Rainforest
      • 3052 Northern Escarpment Antarctic Beech Rainforest
      • 3053 Northern Escarpment Sassafras Rainforest
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 3057 Chaelundi-Carrai Rocky Peaks Myrtle Scrub
      • 3072 Glenugie Peak Dry Rainforest
      • 3120 Hunter-Peel Ranges Dry Rainforest
      • 3469 Macleay Gorges Low Scrubby Dry Rainforest
      • 3097 Northern Escarpment Dry Rainforest
      • 3098 Northern Escarpment Grey Myrtle Gully Rainforest
      • 3099 Northern Escarpment Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
      • 3112 Tenterfield Hills Dry Rainforest
      • 3113 Timbarra Sheltered Gorges Vine Thicket
      • 3114 Upper Hunter Ranges Moist Gully Forest
      • 547 Wild Quince - Mock Olive - Rusty Fig - Iamboto - Sweet Pittosporum dry rainforest of rocky and scree areas of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3027 Gibraltar Range Tea-tree-Phebalium Shrubland
      • 3029 Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
      • 3031 Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
      • 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
      • 3034 Northern Gorges Riparian Rainforest
      • 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 1531 Sassafras - Grey Possumwood warm temperate rainforest of the New England escarpment
      • 3042 Tenterfield Rocky Gully Rainforest
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    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 845 Giant Stinging Tree - Fig dry subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3237 Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
      • 3285 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
      • 3248 Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
      • 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3251 Northern Gorges Diverse Grassy Forest
      • 3167 Northern Hinterland Blackbutt-Forest Oak Wet Forest
      • 3252 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Mahogany Grassy Forest
      • 3253 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Turpentine Mesic Forest
      • 3254 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
      • 3255 Nymboida Acacia blakei Shrubland
      • 3256 Rivertree Creekflat Moist Grassy Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3277 Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3279 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3280 Far North Escarpment Gorges Blackbutt Forest
      • 3281 Guyra Granitoids Gum-Messmate Forest
      • 3282 Liverpool Range Apple Gully Forest
      • 3283 Liverpool Range Montane Stringybark Forest
      • 3284 Liverpool Range Ribbon Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 1555 Mountain Gum - Messmate - Snow Gum grassy open forest of the New England Tablelands
      • 3286 Northern Escarpment Blackbutt Cool Moist Forest
      • 3287 Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
      • 3288 Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
      • 1166 Silvertop Stringybark - Ribbon Gum ferny open forest in the Kaputar area of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 3289 West Barrington Granitoid Outcrop Forest
      • 3290 Western Guy Fawkes Plateau Moist Gum Forest
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3058 Clarence Gorges Rocky Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3157 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Wet Forest
      • 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
      • 1575 Messmate - Forest Ribbon Gum - New England Blackbutt shrub - grass tall open forest of Barrington Tops and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
      • 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3168 Northern Hinterland Brush Box-Quince Wet Forest
      • 3169 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3172 Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
      • 3173 Northern Ranges Dunns Gum-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3199 Far North New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • 931 Messmate - Mountain Gum tall moist forest of the far southern New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 1574 Messmate grassy tall open forest on Barrington and Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 1577 New England Blackbutt - Forest Ribbon Gum grassy tall open forest of the Northern Tablelands escarpment
      • 3680 Northern Escarpment Ash Wet Shrub Forest
      • 3206 Northern Escarpment Corkwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
      • 3207 Northern Escarpment Layered Blackbutt Fern Forest
      • 3203 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • 3204 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Maple Wet Forest
      • 3205 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Tallowwood Wet Forest
      • 3208 Northern Escarpment Rocky Blackbutt Scrub Woodland
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