Status
Source Description and ecology
Likelihood of occurrence
Common Name Scientific Name
NCA 1 EPBC 2
lined eucalypt woodlands in semiarid western QLD (Melzer, Carrick, Menkhorst, Lunney, & John, 2000). The historical modelled distribution suggests the Northern quoll ( Dasyurus hallucatus ) once occurred across most of northern Australia, including dry to arid areas. Currently, it is confined to smaller habitat pockets in coastal areas. It generally prefers rocky Eucalypt woodlands in areas of moderate to high rainfall within 200 km of the coast (Menkhorst & Knight, A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, 2011). The short-beaked echidna is widely distributed throughout Australia, occurring in a broad range of habitats, wherever there is suitable availability of ant or termite prey (Augee, 1998). The species has specialist nursery burrows and shelters in hollow logs but otherwise does not have any fixed nest or shelter sites (Augee, 1998). Given the species broad habitat tolerances, the short-beaked echidna can occur in almost all landscapes including deserts, closed forest, woodland, rainforest, heath, cleared agricultural, grazing land and suburbia. The Short-beaked echidna ( Tachyglossus aculeatus ) is Australia’s most widely distributed mammal, inhabiting almost every terrestrial habitat on the continent (Menkhorst & Knight, A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, 2011). Exists in lower densities in north.
Possible : 1 WO record within 10 km radius of the Project area. Multiple ALA records within 50 km of the Project area with closest record being 17.5 km to the north-east Known: Confirmed present from field survey
LC
E
PMST. WO (1), ALA
Dasyurus hallucatus
Northern quoll
SL
NL
ALA
Tachyglossus aculeatus
Short-beaked Echidna
Possible: 1 WO record within 10 km of Project area. 1 ALA record 5.4 km south of the Project area Unlikely : 1 ALA record 45 km from the Project area. There are no records within 10 km of the Project area and therefore species is unlikely to be present Unlikely : Closest ALA record is 28.2 km from Project area. There are no records within 10 km of the Project area and
SL
NL
WO (1), ALA
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Platypus
Reptiles = 10
V
V
PMST, ALA
Egernia rugosa
Yakka skink
The Yakka skink ( Egernia rugosa ) is an extremely secretive species, particularly in the northern extent of its range. Distribution is limited to dry, open forests, woodlands, and rocky areas from St George and Bollon regions to southern Cape York Peninsula Shelters in burrows around structures such as rocks, spinifex tussocks, fallen logs and other similar microhabitats and lives in small colonies, often only detected by presence of burrows or communal latrine sites (Wilson & Swan, 2021). The Collared Delma is known from the western suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, and the following sites: Bunya Mountains, Blackdown Tableland National Park (NP), Bullyard Conservation Park, D'Aguilar Range NP, Expedition NP, Naumgna and Lockyer Forest Reserves, Western Creek near Millmerran and the Toowoomba Range. The Collared
V
V
PMST, ALA
Delma torquata
Adorned Delma, Collared Delma
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