Threatened fauna Latrobe City

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

Latrobe City – threatened birds

Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR  
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR  
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU  
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus victoriae -
Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia VU  
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata VU  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU  
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae -
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN  
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus -  
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae novaehollandiae EN  
Hardhead Aythya australis VU
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  
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae novaehollandiae CR
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus -
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  
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -
Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatum -  
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor CR  
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster EN  
White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis EN  
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus VU
     

Latrobe City – threatened mammals

Broad-toothed Rat Mastacomys fuscus mordicus VU  
Brush-tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa VU  
Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus EN  
Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus VU  
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU  
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN  
Southern Greater Glider Petauroides volans VU  
Spot-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus maculatus EN  
White-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis leucopus VU  
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis australis VU  
       

Latrobe City – threatened fishes

Australian Grayling Prototroctes maraena EN  
Dwarf Galaxias Galaxiella pusilla EN  
Flinders Pygmy Perch Nannoperca sp. 1 VU  
Macquarie Perch Macquaria australasica EN  
       

Latrobe City – threatened reptiles & amphibians

Dendy's Toadlet Pseudophryne dendyi -  
Eastern Snakenecked 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  
     

Latrobe City – threatened invertebrates

Aquatic Invertebrate (caddisfly) Ecnomus nibbor -  
Aquatic Invertebrate (caddisfly) Tanjistomella verna EN  
Large Ant Blue (butterfly) Acrodipsas brisbanensis EN  
Heath Sand-skipper Butterfly Antipodia chaostola chares -  
Two-spotted Grass-skipper Butterfly Pasma tasmanica EN  
Silky Hairstreak Butterfly Pseudalmenus chlorinda zephyrus -  
Yellow Ochre Butterfly Trapezites luteus luteus EN  
Crustacea
     
Glenelg Spiny Crayfish Euastacus bispinosus EN  
Narracan Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus phyllocercus EN  
South Gippsland Spiny Crayfish Euastacus neodiversus EN  
Strzelecki Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus rostrogaleatus 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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