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Comb-crested Jacana - Ocean - Other State: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Irediparra gallinacea

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable external link

Commonwealth status: Not listed external link

Last updated: 07 Aug 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Comb-crested Jacana is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Ocean - Other State Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Northern Australian Coastal Waters	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Comb-crested Jacana - Ocean - Other State 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
  - 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
  - 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
  - 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
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- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
  - 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
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Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
  - 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
  - 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
  - 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
  - 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
  - 3963 Estuarine 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
  - 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
  - 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
  - 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
- Inland Floodplain Swamps
  - 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
  - 416 Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 400 Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 447 Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
  - 361 Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 410 Swamp Paper-bark very tall shrubland wetland on sodic soils in the Pilliga Scrub region
  - 204 Water Couch marsh grassland wetland of frequently flooded inland watercourses
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- Montane Lakes
  - 3978 Morass Margin Shallow Wetlands
  - 3979 Northern Basalt Benches Intermittent Swamps
  - 3980 Southern Lacustrine Herbfield
  - 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
  - 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

Saline wetlands
- Mangrove Swamps
  - 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
- Saltmarshes
  - 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
  - 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4096 Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
  - 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4101 South Coast Spear-grass Saltmarsh
  - 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
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