Green and Golden Bell Frog - South Eastern Queensland: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Litoria aurea

Conservation status in NSW: Endangered

Commonwealth status: Vulnerable

Last updated: 14 Oct 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Green and Golden Bell Frog is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Queensland Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Clarence Lowlands	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Green and Golden Bell Frog - South Eastern Queensland 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)
- Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3428 Northern Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Turpentine Grassy Forest
- Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
- Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
  - 1608 Grey Box - Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum grassy open forest of the central Hunter
  - 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3435 Hunter Coast Lowland Flats Damp Forest
  - 3437 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Dry Forest
  - 3436 Hunter Coast Sandy Creekflat Low Paperbark Scrub
  - 3434 Hunter Coast White Mahogany Low Forest
  - 3438 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Ironbark Forest
  - 4157 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Singleton Mallee
  - 4158 Hunter Escarpment Pokolbin Ironbark Woodland
  - 3442 Lower Hunter Lowland Ironbark-Paperbark Forest
  - 3444 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum-Ironbark Forest
  - 3445 Lower North Coastal Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest
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- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
  - 1606 White Box - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Blakely's Red Gum shrubby open forest of the central and upper Hunter

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
  - 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
  - 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
  - 3556 Umina Coastal Sand Woodland
- South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
- South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3181 Bega Wet Shrub Forest
  - 3182 Far South Coastal Apple Gully Forest
  - 3184 Far South Lowland Creekflat Forest
  - 3185 Far South Riverflat Wet Forest
  - 3186 Far South Sandflat Ribbon Gum Forest
  - 3187 Shoalhaven Hinterland Peppermint Wet Gully Forest
  - 3190 South Coast Hinterland Monkey Gum Wet Fern Forest
  - 3191 South Coast Ranges Moist Gully Forest
  - 3188 South Coast Riverflat Peppermint Forest
  - 3192 South Coast Riverflat Ribbon Gum Forest
  - 3193 South Coast Stringybark-Monkey Gum Wet Forest
  - 3194 Southeast Escarpment Flats Swamp Gum Forest
  - 3196 Southeast Hinterland Intermediate Shrub Forest
  - 3197 Southeast Hinterland Monkey Gum Moist Shrub Forest
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- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3662 South Coast Lowland Blackbutt Forest
  - 3664 Southeast Foothills Woollybutt Dry Shrub Forest
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 351 Brittle Gum - Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark open forest in the north-western part (Yass to Orange) of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  - 730 Broad-leaved Peppermint - Mountain Gum dry open forest of the Central Tablelands area of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
  - 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
  - 3587 Pearl Beach Sand Forest
  - 3588 Shoalhaven Foothills Bloodwood Heathy Forest
  - 3589 Southern Highlands Escarpment Peppermint Gully Forest
  - 3591 Southern Sydney Sheltered Forest
  - 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
  - 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3594 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Foreshores Forest
  - 3595 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Gully Forest
  - 3596 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Forest
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3600 Burragorang Escarpment Heath
  - 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
  - 3602 Burragorang Permian Sandstone Grey Gum-Peppermint Forest
  - 3615 Sydney Hinterland Apple-Blackbutt Gully Forest
  - 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
  - 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
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- Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3628 Castlereagh Shrubby Swamp Woodland
  - 3631 Kurri Sand-Clay Woodland
  - 3634 Quorrobolong Sand Flats Forest

Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
  - 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
  - 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
  - 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
  - 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
  - 4024 Cumberland Blue Box Riverflat Forest
  - 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
  - 4027 Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
  - 4035 Far South Floodplain Wetland Paperbark Scrub
  - 4036 Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
  - 4038 Hunter Estuarine Melaleuca nodosa Scrub
  - 4039 Hunter Range Creekflat Apple-Red Gum Forest
  - 4041 Lower Hunter Flats Red Gum Mesic Forest
  - 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
  - 924 Melaleuca linariifolia alluvial melaleuca thicket of the lower Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
  - 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 4045 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - 4046 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
  - 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
  - 4048 Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
  - 4049 South Coast Floodplain Grassy Swamp Forest
  - 4050 South Coast Floodplain Wetland Paperbark Scrub
  - 4051 South Coast Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4056 Southern Estuarine Swamp Paperbark Creekflat Scrub
  - 4057 Sydney Creekflat Swamp Mahogany-Paperbark Forest
  - 4058 Sydney Hinterland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4059 Sydney Hinterland Sandy Creekflat Shrub Forest
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- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
  - 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
  - 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
  - 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
  - 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 3988 Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
  - 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
  - 3991 Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - 3995 Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
  - 3997 Hunter Coast Sandplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
  - 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
  - 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 4002 Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
  - 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4005 Northern Paperbark Banksia Littoral Forest
  - 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
  - 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
  - 4008 Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
  - 3992 Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
  - 4009 Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest
  - 1731 Swamp Oak - Weeping Grass grassy riparian forest of the Hunter Valley
  - 4010 Sydney Hinterland Creekflat Paperbark Scrub
  - 4012 Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
  - 4013 Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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- Eastern Riverine Forests
  - 4061 Bega-Towamba Riparian Scrub
  - 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
  - 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
  - 4079 Northern Hinterland Grassy River Oak Forest
  - 4081 Northwest River Oak-River Red Gum Forest
  - 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
  - 4083 Southeast Tableland Rocky Riparian Scrub
  - 4084 Southern Escarpment River Oak Forest
  - 4086 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Scrub
  - 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
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- Inland Riverine Forests
  - 4089 Namoi-Upper Hunter River Red Gum Forest

Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
  - 3958 Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
  - 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
  - 3966 Foredune Swale Marsh
  - 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
  - 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
  - 3914 Northern Sands Chorizandra Sedgeland
  - 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
  - 3920 Coastal Clifftop Shrubby Marsh
  - 3921 Coastal Sydney Sand Saw-sedge Wet Shrubland
  - 3903 Far Southeast Lowland Heath Swamp
  - 3902 Far Southeast Shrubby Swamp Woodland
  - 3904 Hunter Coast Grasstree Graminoid Swamp Scrub
  - 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
  - 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
  - 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
  - 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - 3900 Northern Sandplain Saw-sedge-Fern Swamp Heath
  - 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
  - 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
  - 3917 Shoalhaven Lowland Heath
  - 3919 Southern Highlands Wet Swamp Heath
  - 3922 Sydney Coastal Sand Swamp Scrub
  - 3923 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Creekline Swamp Heath
  - 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
  - 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
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- Montane Bogs and Fens
  - 766 Carex sedgeland of the slopes and tablelands
  - 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
  - 3941 Megalong Valley Fringing Swamp Scrub
  - 3942 Monaro Creekflat Peat Swamp
  - 3949 Southern Highlands Sand Swamp Sedgeland
  - 3950 Southern Highlands Sand Swamp Woodland
  - 3951 Southern Tableland Ranges Boggy Open Woodland
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Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
  - 3407 Central Headland Grassland
  - 3408 Northern Headland Grassland
  - 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
  - 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
  - 3413 Monaro Kangaroo Grass Woodland-Grassland Complex
  - 3414 Monaro Snowgrass-Kangaroo Grass Grassland
  - 1110 River Tussock - Tall Sedge - Kangaroo Grass moist grasslands of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  - 3415 Southern Tableland Red Grass-Spear Grass Grassland
  - 3416 Southern Tableland Valley Flats Damp Grassland

Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
  - 1692 Bull Oak grassy woodland of the central Hunter Valley
  - 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
  - 3318 Cumberland Moist Shale Woodland
  - 3319 Cumberland Shale Hills Woodland
  - 3320 Cumberland Shale Plains Woodland
  - 3321 Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest
  - 3327 Illawarra Lowland Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3328 Lower Hunter Red Gum-Paperbark Riverflat Forest
  - 1603 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Bull Oak - Grey Box shrub - grass open forest of the central and lower Hunter
  - 1604 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box - Spotted Gum shrub - grass woodland of the central and lower Hunter
  - 1691 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Grey Box grassy woodland of the central and upper Hunter
  - 3329 Northern Hinterland Valleys Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3269 Shoalhaven Lowland Spotted Gum-Paperbark Forest
  - 4052 South Coast Low Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3330 South Coast Lowland Woollybutt Grassy Forest
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- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
  - 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  - 3366 Central Tableland Clay Apple Box Grassy Forest
  - 3367 Central Tableland Granites Grassy Box Woodland
  - 3368 Central Tableland Limestone Woodland
  - 3369 Central Tableland Ranges Peppermint-Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3370 Central Tableland Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
  - 3373 Goulburn Tableland Box-Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
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- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
  - 3338 Goulburn Tableland Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
  - 3341 Monaro-Gourock Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
  - 3347 Southern Tableland Creekflat Ribbon Gum Forest
  - 3348 Southern Tableland Granites Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
  - 3485 Central Hunter Slaty Gum Grassy Forest

Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
  - 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
  - 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
  - 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
  - 3794 Lower North Coast Headland Clay Heath
  - 3795 Mid North Swamp Oak Headland Scrub
  - 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
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- Sydney Coastal Heaths
  - 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
  - 3811 Sydney Coastal Headland Cliff Scrub
  - 3812 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Headland Heath
- Wallum Sand Heaths
  - 3799 Agnes Banks Woodland
  - 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
  - 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
  - 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
  - 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
  - 3804 Northern Sands Wallum Banksia-Allocasuarina Scrub
  - 3805 Southern Sandplain Heath
  - 3806 Sydney Coastal Sand Mantle Heath
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Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Highly disturbed areas with no or limited native vegetation
  - 99997 Highly disturbed areas - road verges, table drains, road embankments, ploughed paddocks etc.
- Marine environments
  - 99994 Dune and Shorelines
- Rocky islands
  - 99992 Rocky islands
- Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
  - 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
  - 3110 Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
  - 3077 Illawarra Complex Dry Rainforest
  - 3106 South Coast Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
- Littoral Rainforests
  - 3134 Illawarra Seacliffs Littoral Rainforest
  - 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
  - 3133 Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
- Subtropical Rainforests
  - 3013 Illawarra Lowland Subtropical Rainforest

Saline wetlands
- Mangrove Swamps
  - 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
- Saltmarshes
  - 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
  - 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4040 South Coast Selliera-Sea Rush Swamp Oak Saltmarsh
  - 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
  - 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3237 Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
  - 3238 Hunter Range Colluvial Apple-Gum Forest
  - 3236 Hunter Valley Hills Wet Vine Forest
  - 3155 Illawarra North-Pittwater Bangalay Moist Forest
  - 3240 Lower North Escarpment Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
  - 3244 Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
  - 3241 Lower North White Mahogany-Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3249 Northern Bloodwood-Ironbark Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3259 Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
  - 3260 Sydney Foreshores Shale Forest
  - 3262 Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
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- Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
  - 3268 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
  - 3270 Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest
  - 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
  - 3272 South Coast Lowland Creekflat Forest
  - 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
  - 3274 South Coast Spotted Gum Moist Forest
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- Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3291 Bondo Montane Valley Flats Forest
  - 3292 Bondo Slopes Peppermint Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3293 Bondo Slopes Peppermint Sheltered Fern Forest
  - 3294 Central Tableland Peppermint-Gum Montane Forest
  - 1197 Snow Gum - Mountain Gum tussock grass-herb forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
  - 3304 Southern Tableland Swamp Flats Shrub Woodland
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Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3136 Blue Gum High Forest
  - 3140 Blue Mountains Sandstone Turpentine Moist Forest
  - 3145 Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
  - 3154 Illawarra Blackbutt Moist Forest
  - 3153 Illawarra Escarpment Bangalay x Blue Gum Wet Forest
  - 3078 Illawarra Lowland Wet Vine Forest
  - 3125 Illawarra Seacliff Banksia-Bangalay Forest
  - 3156 Jervis Bay Sands Littoral Moist Forest
  - 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
  - 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
  - 3162 Mid North Lowland Flooded Gum-Palm Wet Forest
  - 4043 Mid North Lowland Riparian Wet Forest
  - 3165 Northern Brush Box Subtropical Wet Forest
  - 3176 Sydney Enriched Sandstone Moist Forest
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