List of Nature Conservation Act endangered fauna of Queensland
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This is a list of animals listed as endangered under the terms of Queensland
's Nature Conservation Act 1992
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Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
's Nature Conservation Act 1992
Nature Conservation Act 1992
The Nature Conservation Act 1992 is an act of the Parliament of Queensland that provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota. As originally published, it provided for biota to be declared presumed extinct, endangered, vulnerable, rare or common...
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Invertebrates
- Argyreus hyperbius inconstans (Australian fritillary butterfly)
- Hypochrysops piceatus piceatus (Jewel butterfly)
Fish
- Carcharias taurus (Grey nurse shark)
- Chlamydogobius sp. A (Elizabeth Springs goby)
- Chlamydogobius sp. B (Edgbaston goby)
- Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis (Red-finned blue-eye)
Amphibians
- Litoria lorica (Armoured mistfrog)
- Litoria nannotis (Waterfall frog)
- Litoria nyakalensis (Mountain mistfrog)
- Litoria pearsoniana (Cascade tree frog)
- Litoria rheocola (Common mistfrog)
- Mixophyes fleayi (Fleay's barred-frog)
- Mixophyes iterates (Giant barred frog)
- Nyctimystes dayi (Australian lace-lid)
- Rheobatrachus silus (Southern gastric brooding frog)
- Rheobatrachus vitellinus (Northern gastric brooding frog)
- Taudactylus acutirostris (Sharp-snouted dayfrog)
- Taudactylus diurnus (Southern dayfrog)
- Taudactylus eungellensis (Eungella dayfrog)
- Taudactylus pleione (Kroombit tinkerfrog)
- Taudactylus rheophilus (Northern tinkerfrog)
Reptiles
- Lerista allanae (Allan's skink)
- Hemiaspis damelii (Grey snake)
- Dermochelys coriacea (Leathery turtle)
- Caretta caretta (Loggerhead turtle)
- Anomalopus mackayiAnomalopus mackayiAnomalopus mackayi, the Long-Legged Worm Skink or Five-Clawed Worm Skink is a smooth-scaled burrowing skink found in eastern Australia. It generally burrows in areas with black soil and few trees. It generally grows to the size of about 10 cm...
(Long-legged worm skink) - Elusor macrurus (Mary River turtle)
- Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive ridley)
- Tympanocryptis pinguicolla (South-eastern lined earless dragon)
Birds
- Casuarius casuarius (Southern cassowary) — southern population
- Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni (Double-eyed fig-parrot)
- Dasyornis brachypterus (Eastern bristlebird)
- Epthianura crocea macgregori (Yellow chat)
- Erythrotriorchis radiatus (Red goshawk)
- Erythrura gouldiae (Gouldian finch)
- Lathamus discolor (Swift parrot)
- Macronectes giganteus (Southern giant petrel)
- Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda (Star finch, eastern subspecies)
- Pezoporus occidentalis (Night parrot)
- Psephotus chrysopterygius (Golden-shouldered parrot)
- Pterodroma arminjoniana (Herald petrel)
- Sterna albifrons (Little tern)
- Xanthomyza phrygia (Regent honeyeater)
Mammals
- Bettongia tropica (Northern bettong)
- Dasyurus maculatus gracilis (Spotted-tailed quoll, northern subspecies)
- Hipposideros semoni (Semon's leaf-nosed bat)
- Lasiorhinus krefftii (Northern hairy-nosed wombat)
- Macrotis lagotis (Bilby)
- Melomys rubicola (Bramble Cay melomys)
- Notomys fuscus (Dusky hopping-mouse)
- Onychogalea fraenata (Bridled nailtail wallaby)
- Petaurus gracilis (Mahogany glider)
- Petrogale persephone (Proserpine rock-wallaby)
- Petrogale sharmani (Sharman's rock-wallaby)
- Pseudomys australisPseudomys australisThe Plains Rat, or Plains Mouse, or Eastern Mouse, or Palyoora , is a threatened rodent species native to Australia.-Captivity:...
(Plains rat) - Rhinolophus philippinensis (Greater large-eared horseshoe bat)
- Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus (Bare-rumped sheathtail bat)
- Sminthopsis douglasi (Julia Creek dunnart)
- Taphozous troughtoni (Troughton’s sheathtail bat)