Threatened fauna Ararat Rural City

 

Note: This page is intended to provide an overview of all known (including historic) records of fauna in the Ararat Rural City which are considered threatened under the Victorian FFG Threatened List 2021. 

 

Victorian conservation status

 
EW Extinct in Wild
RX Regionally Extinct
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
th Threatened

 

Common name

Scientific name

Conservation status

    Victorian FFG threatened list

Ararat Rural City - Threatened Birds

Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR    
Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis CR    
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU    
Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis CR    
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -    
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla -    
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR    
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR    
Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis -    
Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans -    
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa CR    
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU    
Brolga Grus rubicunda EN    
Brown Treecreeper 
(south-eastern sub species)
Climacteris picumnus victoriae -    
 
Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius CR    
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia VU    
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia VU    
Crested Bellbird Oreoica gutturalis EN    
Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata VU    
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata VU    
Elegant Parrot Neophema elegans VU    
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa EN    
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN    
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus -    
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU    
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis VU    
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae EN    
Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica macrotarsa EN    
Hardhead Aythya australis VU    
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata cucullata VU    
King Quail Coturnix chinensis victoriae EN    
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -    
Little Button-quail Turnix velox -    
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides VU    
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes EN    
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata VU    
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU    
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus hillii -    
Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fuva VU    
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus pacificus -    
Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta VU    
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos -    
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius -    
Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus CR    
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera CR    
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua VU    
Redthroat Pyrrholaemus brunneus EN    
Red-backed Kingfisher Todiramphus pyrrhopygia -    
Red-chested Button-quail Turnix pyrrhothorax EN    
Red-lored Whistler Pachycephala rufogularis VU    
Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia CR    
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia -    
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittata EN    
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -    
Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura VU    
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor CR    
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus -    
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus VU    
White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus -    

Ararat Rural City - Threatened Mammals

Brush-tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa VU    
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby Petrogale penicillata CR    
Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina VU  
Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii EN    
Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata VU  
Heath Mouse Pseudomys shortridgei EN    
Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus VU    
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU    
Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus EN    
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN    
Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis VU    
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis australis VU    
         

Ararat Rural City - Threatened Fish

Dwarf Galaxias Galaxiella pusilla EN    
Golden Perch Macquaria ambigua -  
Murray Cod Maccullochella peelii peelii EN    

Ararat Rural City - Threatened Reptiles & Amphibians

Brown Toadlet Pseudophryne bibronii EN    
Corangamite Water Skink Eulamprus tympanum EN    
Eastern Bearded Dragon Pogona barbata VU    
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU    
Lace Monitor (Tree Goanna) Varanus varius EN    
Striped Legless Lizard Delma impar EN    
Swamp Skink Egernia coventryi EN    

Ararat Rural City - Threatened Invertebrates

Amethyst Hairstreak Butterfly Jalmenus icilius EN    
Caddisfly Ecnomus nibbor -    
Cryptic Sun Moth Synemon theresa EX    
Freshwater isopod Colubotelson joyneri CR    
Glenelg Spiny Cray Euastacus bispinosus EN    
Golden Sun Moth Synemon plana VU    
Jewel Beetle Temognatha sanguinipennis EN  
Silvered Skipper Hesperilla crypsargyra lesouefi -  
Metallic Green Carpenter Bee Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus EX  
Water beetle Hygrobia australasiae -    
Western Bush Yabby Geocharax falcata EN    
Western Swamp Crayfish Gramastacus insolitus EN    
Yellow Sedge-skipper Butterfly Hesperilla flavescens EN    

 

Note: - blank spaces indicate species previously on Advisory lists which have been reassessed as not threatened in Victoria.

Data Source: Information in this table has been derived from the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas (VBA), Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, Victoria, 2021.  Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Threatened List (FFG Threatened List,  June 2023). Advisory List of Threatened Invertebrate Fauna in Victoria (2009),  Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in Victoria (2013)  and Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning.

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