State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams

Threatened fauna Knox City

 Note: This page is intended to provide an overview of all known (including historic) records of fauna in the City of Knox which are considered threatened under the Victorian 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

Knox 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
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla palustris -    
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR    
Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans -    
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU    
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Calamanthus pyrrhopygius VU    
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos VU    
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU    
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis VU    
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae  EN    
Hardhead Aythya australis VU
King Quail Coturnix chinensis victoriae EN    
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -    
Lewin's Rail Lewinia pectoralis pectoralis VU    
Little Button-quail Turnix velox -    
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides VU    
Little Egret Egretta garzetta EN    
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Lophocroa leadbeateri CR    
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata VU    
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 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
     

Knox City – threatened mammals

  
Broad-toothed Rat Mastacomys fuscus mordicus VU    
Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus -    
Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus VU    
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU    
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN    
Southern Greater Glider Petauroides volans VU    
         

Knox City – threatened fishes

  
Dwarf Galaxias Galaxiella pusilla EN    
Macquarie Perch Macquaria australasica EN    
         

Knox City – threatened reptiles & amphibians

  
Broad-shelled Turtle Chelodina expansa EN    
Eastern Snake-necked Turtle Chelodina longicollis -    
Glossy Grass Skink Pseudemoia rawlinsoni EN    
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU    
Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata EN    
Swamp Skink Lissolepis coventryi EN    
Tree Goanna (Lace Monitor) Varanus varius EN    
     

Knox City – threatened invertebrates

  
Caddisfly (Aquatic invertebrate)  Plectrotarsus gravenhorstii VU    
Silky Hairstreak Butterfly Pseudalmenus chlorinda zephyrus -    
Small Ant Blue (butterfly) Acrodipsas myrmecophila CR    
Crustacea
        
Foothill Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus victoriensis EN    
Tubercle Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus tuberculatus 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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