State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams

Threatened fauna Colac Otway Shire

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

 

Victorian conservation status
 
EX Extinct 
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
Th Threatened

 

 

 

 

Common name

Scientific name

Conservation status
    Victorian FFG threatened list

Colac Otway Shire - Threatened Birds
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR    
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU    
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -    
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR    
Black Bittern Ixobrychus flavicollis australis EN    
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR    
Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris -    
Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens -    
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU    
Brolga Grus rubicunda EN    
Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius CR    
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia VU    
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia VU    
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos VU    
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU    
Fairy Prion Pachyptila turtur -    
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa EN    
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN    
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus -    
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae EN    
Ground Parrot Pezoporus wallicus EN    
Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica macrotarsa EN    
Hardhead Aythya australis VU    
Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis VU    
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -    
Lewin's Rail Rallus pectoralis VU    
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides VU    
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes EN    
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata VU    
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae CR    
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU    
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus hillii -    
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus pacificus -    
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos -    
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius -    
Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus CR    
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera CR    
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua VU    
Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia CR    
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia -    
Rufous Bristlebird (Otway) Dasyornis broadbenti caryochrous VU    
Shy Albatross Diomedea cauta EN    
Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus -    
Southern Giant-Petrel Macronectes giganteus EN    
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -    
Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans CR    
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus -    
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster EN    
White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina EN    
White-fronted Tern Sterna striata -    
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus EN    
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola EN    
Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos EN    
         

Colac Otway Shire - Threatened Mammals
Broad-toothed Rat Mastacomys fuscus VU    
Common Bent-wing Bat Miniopterus schreibersii CR    
Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata -  
Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus VU    
Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus VU    
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU    
Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus EN    
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN    
Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australis EN    
Spot-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus EN    
Swamp Antechinus Antechinus minimus VU    
White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus VU    
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis australis VU    
         

Colac Otway Shire - Threatened Fishes
Australian Grayling Prototroctes maraena EN    
Australian Mudfish Galaxias cleaveri EN    
Dwarf Galaxias Galaxiella pusilla EN    
Freshwater Catfish Tandanus tandanus EN    
Mountain Galaxias Galaxias olidus (group) -    
Yarra Pigmy Perch Nannoperca obscura VU    
         

Colac Otway Shire - Threatened Reptiles & Amphibians
Corangamite Water Skink Eulamprus tympanum EN    
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU    
Leatherback Turtle Dermochelys coriacea CR    
Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata EN    
Striped Legless Lizard Delma impar EN    
Swamp Skink Egernia coventryi EN    
         

Colac Otway Shire - Threatened Invertebrates
Caddisfly  Orphninotrichia justini -    
Caddisfly Archaeophylax canarus -    
Caddisfly Taskiria otwayensis VU    
Glenelg Freshwater Mussel Hyridella glenelgensis CR    
Golden Sun Moth
Synemon plana
VU    
Otway Black Snail Victaphanta compacta EN    
Sea-cucumber species Apsolidium densum VU    
Crustacea
        
Glenelg Spiny Crayfish Euastacus bispinosus EN    
Hairy Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus sericatus VU    
Otway Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus fultoni VU    
Otway Bush Yabby Geocharax tasmanicus EN    
Western Bush Yabby Geocharax falcata 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 2021). 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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