Threatened fauna Baw Baw Shire

 

Note: This page is intended to provide an overview of all known (including historic) records of fauna in the Baw Baw Shire 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

Baw Baw Shire – threatened birds

Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR  
Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus dubius EN  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla palustris -  
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR  
Black Falcon Falco subniger EN  
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU  
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus victoriae -
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Calamanthus pyrrhopygius VU  
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia EN  
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos VU  
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata VU  
Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis CR  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU  
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae -
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa EN  
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN  
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus -  
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae novaehollandiae EN  
Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica macrotarsa EN  
Hardhead Aythya australis VU
Helmeted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops cassidix CR  
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata VU  
King Quail Coturnix chinensis victoriae EN  
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -  
Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis pectoralis VU  
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes EN  
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae novaehollandiae CR  
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus -
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus pacificus -  
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius -
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera CR  
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua VU  
Regent Honeyeater Anthochaera phrygia CR  
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia -  
Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa tenebricosa EN  
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittatus EN  
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -
Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatum -  
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor CR  
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus -
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster EN  
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus VU
     

Baw Baw Shire – threatened mammals

Broad-toothed Rat Mastacomys fuscus mordicus VU  
Brush-tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa VU  
Common Bent-wing Bat (eastern ssp.) Miniopterus orianae oceanensis CR  
Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina murina VU  
Dingo Canis lupus dingo VU  
Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus -  
Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus EN  
Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus VU  
Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri CR  
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU  
Rufous-bellied Pademelon Thylogale billardierii Th  
Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus EN  
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN  
Southern Greater Glider Petauroides volans VU  
Southern Myotis Myotis macropus -  
Spot-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus maculatus EN  
White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus VU  
Yellow-bellied Sheathtail Bat Saccolaimus flaviventris VU  
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis australis VU  
       

Baw Baw Shire – threatened fishes

Australian Grayling Prototroctes maraena EN  
Dwarf Galaxias Galaxiella pusilla EN  
Flinders Pygmy Perch Nannoperca sp. 1 VU  
Freshwater Catfish Tandanus tandanus EN  
Macquarie Perch Macquaria australasica EN  
Murray Cod Maccullochella peelii EN  
Murray River Rainbowfish Melanotaenia fluviatilis EN  
Golden Perch Macquaria ambigua -  
West Gippsland Galaxias Galaxias sp. 9 CR  
       

Baw Baw Shire – threatened reptiles & amphibians

Alpine Bog Skink Pseudemoia cryodroma EN  
Alpine Tree Frog Litoria verreauxii alpina CR  
Baw Baw Frog Philoria frosti CR  
Dendy's Toadlet Pseudophryne dendyi -  
Giant Burrowing Frog Heleioporus australiacus CR  
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU  
Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata EN  
Spotted Tree Frog Litoria spenceri CR  
Swamp Skink Lissolepis coventryi EN  
Tree Goanna (Lace Monitor) Varanus varius EN  
     

Baw Baw Shire – threatened invertebrates

Alpine Darner Dragonfly Austroaeschna flavomaculata VU  
Aquatic Invertebrate (copepod) Canthocamptus sublaevis -  
Aquatic Invertebrate (copepod) Attheyella (Delachauxiella) dedeckkeri EN  
Aquatic Invertebrate (caddisfly) Tanjistomella verna EN  
Aquatic Invertebrate (caddisfly) Archaeophylax canarus -  
Aquatic Invertebrate (stonefly)
Thaumatoperla robusta
-  
Curve-tail Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus curvisuturus EN  
Gippsland Burrowing Crayfish
Engaeus hemicirratulus
EN  
Giant Gippsland Earthworm Megascolides australis EN  
Glenelg Spiny Crayfish Euastacus bispinosus EN  
Heath Sand-skipper Butterfly Antipodia chaostola chares -  
Narracan Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus phyllocercus EN  
Silky Hairstreak Butterfly Pseudalmenus chlorinda zephyrus -  
South Gippsland Spiny Crayfish Euastacus neodiversus EN  
Tubercle Burrowing Crayfish
Engaeus tuberculatus
EN  
Warragul Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus sternalis CR  
       

 

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 2022). 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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