Threatened fauna Casey City

 

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

 

 

Victorian conservation status

 
EX Extinct 
EW Extinct in the Wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
Th Threatened

 

 

Common name

Scientific name

Conservation status

    Victorian FFG threatened list

Casey City – threatened birds

Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR  
Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus dubius EN  
Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis australis CR  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla palustris -  
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR  
Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans -  
Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens -  
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR  
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa CR  
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU  
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus victoriae -
Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia VU  
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Calamanthus pyrrhopygius VU  
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia EN  
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos VU  
Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea CR  
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata VU  
Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis CR  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU  
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae -
Fairy Tern Sternula nereis nereis CR  
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa EN  
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN  
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus -  
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis EN  
Grey Falcon Falco hypoleucos EN  
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae novaehollandiae EN  
Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes CR  
Hardhead Aythya australis VU
Helmeted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops cassidix CR  
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata VU  
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -  
Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis pectoralis VU  
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides VU  
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes EN  
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata VU  
Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis EN  
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae novaehollandiae CR  
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus -
Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster CR  
Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva VU  
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus pacificus -  
Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta VU  
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius -
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera CR  
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua VU  
Regent Honeyeater Regent Honeyeater CR  
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia -  
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres EN  
Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus -  
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittatus EN  
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor CR  
Turquoise Parrot Neophema pulchella VU  
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus EN  
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus -
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster EN  
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus VU
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola EN  
     

Casey City – threatened mammals

Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus -  
Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus EX in Vic.  
New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae EN  
Long-nosed Fur Seal Arctocephalus australis forsteri VU  
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU  
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN  
Spot-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus maculatus EN  
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis australis VU  
       

Casey City – threatened fishes

Australian Grayling Prototroctes maraena EN  
Dwarf Galaxias Galaxiella pusilla EN  
Golden Perch Macquaria ambigua -  
Macquarie Perch Macquaria australasica EN  
Flatback Mangrove Goby Mugilogobius platynotus EN  
       

Casey City – threatened reptiles & amphibians

Glossy Grass Skink Pseudemoia rawlinsoni EN  
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU  
Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata EN  
Swamp Skink Lissolepis coventryi EN  
     

Casey City – threatened invertebrates

Golden Sun Moth Synemon plana VU  
Large Ant Blue (butterfly) Acrodipsas brisbanensis EN  
Foothill Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus victoriensis EN  
Jewel Beetle Temognatha sanguinipennis EN  

 

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

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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