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Threatened fauna of Australia are those
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriat ...
and subspecies of birds,
fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
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frogs A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...
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insects Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of j ...
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mammals Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur o ...
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molluscs Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estim ...
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crustaceans Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
and reptiles to be found in Australia that are in danger of becoming extinct. This list is the list proclaimed under the Australian federal ''
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 The ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and cult ...
'' (EPBC Act). The classifications are based on those used by the
World Conservation Union The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...
(IUCN), however IUCN and Australian rankings do differ. Each state and territory has its own legislation relating to environmental protection. Based on the list of Australian animals extinct in the Holocene, about 33
mammals Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur o ...
(27 from the mainland, including the
thylacine The thylacine ( , or , also ) (''Thylacinus cynocephalus'') is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The last known live animal was captured in 1930 in Tasma ...
), 24 birds (three from the mainland), one reptile, and three
frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriat ...
or subspecies are strongly believed to have become extinct in Australia during the
Holocene The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene togeth ...
epoch. These figures exclude dubious
taxa In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...
like the Roper River scrub robin (''Drymodes superciliaris colcloughi'') and possibly extinct taxa like the
Christmas Island shrew The Christmas Island shrew (''Crocidura trichura''), also known as the Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island. It was variously placed as subspecies of the Asian gray shrew (''Crocidura at ...
(''Crocidura trichura'').


2020: new database of threatened mammals

A new online database of threatened mammals launched on 22 April 2020 reported that there had been a decline of more than a third of threatened mammal numbers in the past 20 years, but the data also show that targeted conservation efforts are working. The ''Threatened Mammal Index'' "is compiled from more than 400,000 individual surveys, and contains population trends for 57 of Australia's threatened or near-threatened terrestrial and marine mammal species".


Extinct in the wild

One fish is listed as extinct in the wild. * Pedder galaxias, ''Galaxias pedderensis''


Critically endangered

Five mammals, six birds, two reptiles, three fish and five other species are listed as critically endangered.


Invertebrates

*Amphipod crustacean '' Austrogammarus australis'' *Freshwater snail '' Beddomeia tumida'' *Boggomoss snail, Dawson Valley snail, '' Adclarkia dawsonensis'' *Margaret River hairy marron, '' Cherax tenuimanus'' *Lord Howe Island stick insect, '' Dryococelus australis'' *Golden sun moth, '' Synemon plana'' * Mitchell's rainforest snail, ''Thersites mitchellae''


Fish

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Grey nurse shark The sand tiger shark (''Carcharias taurus''), gray nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark or blue-nurse sand tiger, is a species of shark that inhabits subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. It inhabits the continental shelf, from sandy sho ...
, ''Carcharias taurus'' - east coast population * Western trout minnow, western trout galaxias, '' Galaxias truttaceus hesperius'' * Speartooth shark, ''Glyphis glyphis'' * Opal cling goby, '' Stiphodon semoni''


Reptiles

* Western swamp tortoise, ''Pseudemydura umbrina'' * Leathery turtle, leatherback turtle, luth, ''Dermochelys coriacea''


Birds

* Scrubtit (King Island subspecies), '' Acanthornis magnus greenianus'' * Spotted quail-thrush (Mt Lofty Ranges subspecies), '' Cinclosoma punctatum anachoreta'' * Yellow chat (Dawson subspecies), '' Epthianura crocea macgregori'' *
Orange-bellied parrot The orange-bellied parrot (''Neophema chrysogaster'') is a small parrot endemic to southern Australia, and one of only three species of parrot that migrate. It was described by John Latham in 1790. A small parrot around long, it exhibits sex ...
, ''Neophema chrysogaster'' * Round Island petrel, '' Pterodroma arminjoniana'' * Herald petrel, ''Pterodroma heraldica''


Mammals

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Gilbert's potoroo Gilbert's potoroo or ngilkat (''Potorous gilbertii'') is Australia's most endangered marsupial, the rarest marsupial in the world, and one of the world's rarest critically endangered mammals, found in south-western Western Australia. It is a ...
, ''Potorous gilbertii'' * Christmas Island pipistrelle, ''Pipistrellus murrayi'' * Bare-rumped sheathtail bat, ''
Saccolaimus saccolaimus The naked-rumped pouched bat (''Saccolaimus saccolaimus''), also known as the pouched tomb bat, is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. Taxonomy Described in 1838 by Coenraad Temminck. the author assigned the species to a n ...
nudicluniatus'' * Southern bent-wing bat, ''Miniopterus schreibersii bassanii'' *
Leadbeater's possum Leadbeater's possum (''Gymnobelideus leadbeateri'') is a critically endangered possum largely restricted to small pockets of alpine ash, mountain ash, and snow gum forests in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbou ...
, ''Gymnobelideus leadbeateri''


Endangered

Thirty-four mammals, thirty-eight birds, eleven reptiles, eighteen frogs, sixteen fishes and eleven other species are listed as endangered.


Invertebrates

*Desert sand-skipper, aestiva skipper, '' Croitana aestiva'' * Central North burrowing crayfish, '' Engaeus granulatus'' *
Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish The Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (''Astacopsis gouldi''), also called Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster, is the largest freshwater invertebrate and the largest freshwater crayfish species in the world. The species is only found in the rive ...
, ''Astacopsis gouldi'' * Furneaux burrowing crayfish, ''Engaeus martigener'' * Scottsdale burrowing crayfish, ''Engaeus spinicaudatus'' * Gove crow butterfly, '' Euploea alcathoe enastri'' * Broad-toothed stag beetle, Wielangta stag beetle, ''Lissotes latidens'' *Freshwater snail, '' Beddomeia capensis'' *Land snail '' Mesodontrachia fitzroyana'' * Lord Howe placostylus, Lord Howe flax snail, ''Placostylus bivaricosus'' *Land snail '' Semotrachia euzyga'' *Land snail '' Sinumelon bednalli'' *Moth '' Phyllodes imperialis'' (southern subspecies)


Fish

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Spotted handfish The spotted handfish (''Brachionichthys hirsutus'') is a rare Australian fish in the handfish family, Brachionichthyidae, classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List 2020. It has a highly restricted range, being found only in th ...
, spotted-hand fish, ''Brachionichthys hirsutus'' * Elizabeth Springs goby, ''Chlamydogobius micropterus'' *
Golden galaxias The Golden galaxias (''Galaxias auratus'') is an endangered species of landlocked galaxiid fish belonging to the genus ''Galaxias''. It is Endemism, endemic to Lakes Crescent, Sorell, and their associated waterways located in central Tasmania, Austr ...
, ''Galaxias auratus'' * Swan galaxias, ''Galaxias fontanus'' * Barred galaxias, ''Galaxias fuscus'' * Clarence galaxias, ''Galaxias johnstoni'' * Northern river shark, New Guinea river shark, ''Glyphis garricki'' *Clarence River cod,
eastern freshwater cod The eastern freshwater cod (''Maccullochella ikei''), also known as the eastern cod or Clarence River cod, is a large predatory freshwater fish of the genus ''Maccullochella'' and the family Percichthyidae, that occur in the coastal Clarence Rive ...
, ''Maccullochella ikei'' *
Trout cod The trout cod (''Maccullochella macquariensis'') or bluenose cod, is a large predatory freshwater fish of the genus ''Maccullochella'' and the family Percichthyidae, closely related to the Murray cod. It was originally widespread in the south ...
, ''Maccullochella macquariensis'' *
Mary River cod The Mary River cod (''Maccullochella mariensis'') is a species of temperate perch native to the coastal Mary River system of southern Queensland, Australia. Mary River cod are one of Australia's most endangered freshwater fishes and are notab ...
, ''Maccullochella peelii mariensis'' * Macquarie perch, ''Macquaria australasica'' * Lake Eacham rainbowfish, ''Melanotaenia eachamensis'' * Oxleyan pygmy perch, ''Nannoperca oxleyana'' * Arthurs paragalaxias, ''Paragalaxias mesotes'' * Maugean skate, Port Davey skate, ''Zearaja maugeana'' * Redfin blue-eye, ''Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis''


Amphibians

*White-bellied frog, creek frog, '' Geocrinia alba'' *Yellow-spotted tree frog, yellow-spotted bell frog, '' Litoria castanea'' *Armoured mistfrog, '' Litoria lorica'' *Waterfall frog, torrent tree frog, '' Litoria nannotis'' *Mountain mistfrog, '' Litoria nyakalensis'' *Spotted tree frog, '' Litoria spenceri'' *Fleay's frog, '' Mixophyes fleayi'' *Southern barred frog, giant barred frog, '' Mixophyes iteratus'' *Lace-eyed tree frog, Australian lace-lid, '' Nyctimystes dayi'' *Baw Baw frog, '' Philoria frosti'' *Southern corroboree frog, '' Pseudophryne corroboree'' *Sunset frog, '' Spicospina flammocaerulea'' *Eungella day frog, ''
Taudactylus eungellensis The Eungella torrent frog or Eungella day frog (''Taudactylus eungellensis'') is a species of stream dwelling frog endemic to Australia. It is restricted to ranges west of Mackay in mid-eastern Queensland. Description It is a relatively small f ...
'' *Tinkling frog, '' Taudactylus rheophilus'' *Booroolong frog, '' Litoria booroolongensis''


Reptiles

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Loggerhead turtle The loggerhead sea turtle (''Caretta caretta'') is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around in carapace length when fully ...
, ''Caretta caretta'' * Yellow-snouted ground gecko, ''
Diplodactylus ''Diplodactylus'' is a genus of geckos of the family Diplodactylidae from Australia. They are sometimes called stone geckos or fat-tailed geckos. Member species are morphologically similar but genetically distinct. Species The following 27 specie ...
occultus'' * Arhem land egernia, ''
Egernia ''Egernia'' is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae) that occurs in Australia. These skinks are ecologically diverse omnivores that inhabit a wide range of habitats. However, in the loose delimitation (which incorporates about 30 species) the gen ...
obiri'' * Slater's skink, floodplain skink, ''Egernia slateri slateri'' * Western spiny-tailed skink, ''Egernia stokesii badia'' * Gulf snapping turtle, ''Elusor lavarackorum'' * Mary River tortoise, ''Elusor macrurus'' * Blue Mountains water skink, ''Eulamprus leuraensis'' * Corangamite water skink, '' Eulamprus tympanum marnieae'' * Pacific ridley, olive ridley, ''Lepidochelys olivacea'' * Allan's lerista, retro slider, ''Lerista allanae'' * Pygmy blue-tongue lizard, Adelaide blue-tongue lizard, ''Tiliqua adelaidensis'' * Grassland earless dragon, '' Tympanocryptis lineata pinguicolla'' * Mary River turtle


Birds

* Brown thornbill (King Island subspecies), ''Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi'' * Christmas Island goshawk, ''Accipiter fasciatus natalis'' * Wedge-tailed eagle (Tasmanian subspecies), ''Aquila audax fleayi'' * Red-tailed black-cockatoo (south-eastern subspecies), ''Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne'' *
Glossy black-cockatoo The glossy black cockatoo (''Calyptorhynchus lathami''), is the smallest member of the subfamily Calyptorhynchinae found in eastern Australia. Adult glossy black cockatoos may reach in length. They are sexually dimorphic. Males are blackish bro ...
(South Australian and Kangaroo Island subspecies), ''Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus'' * Carnaby's black cockatoo, short-billed black cockatoo, ''Calyptorhynchus latirostris'' * Southern cassowary (Australian subspecies), ''Casuarius casuarius johnsonii'' *
Common emerald dove The common emerald dove (''Chalcophaps indica''), also called Asian emerald dove and grey-capped emerald dove, is a widespread resident breeding pigeon native to the tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. ...
(Christmas Island subspecies), '' Chalcophaps indica natalis'' * Norfolk Island green parrot (formerly the Norfolk Island subspecies of the red-fronted parakeet), ''Cyanoramphus cookii'' * Coxen's fig parrot, ''Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni'' *
Eastern bristlebird The eastern bristlebird (''Dasyornis brachypterus'') is a species of bird in the bristlebird family, Dasyornithidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, and temperate grassland. It is thr ...
, ''Dasyornis brachypterus'' * Amsterdam albatross, ''Diomedea amsterdamensis'' *
Tristan albatross The Tristan albatross (''Diomedea dabbenena'') is a large seabird from the albatross family. One of the great albatrosses of the genus ''Diomedea'', it was only widely recognised as a full species in 1998. Taxonomy Albatrosses belong to the fami ...
, ''Diomedea dabbenena'' * Northern royal albatross, ''Diomedea sanfordi'' * Gouldian finch, ''Erythrura gouldiae'' * Buff-banded rail (Cocos (Keeling) Islands subspecies), '' Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi'' * Chestnut-rumped heathwren (Mt Lofty Ranges subspecies), ''Hylacola pyrrhopygia parkeri'' *
Swift parrot The swift parrot (''Lathamus discolor'') is a species of broad-tailed parrot, found only in southeastern Australia. The species breeds in Tasmania during the summer and migrates north to south eastern mainland Australia from Griffith- Warialda ...
, ''Lathamus discolor'' *
Helmeted honeyeater The helmeted honeyeater (''Lichenostomus melanops cassidix'') is a passerine bird in the honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict ...
, ''Lichenostomus melanops cassidix'' * Southern giant-petrel, ''Macronectes giganteus'' *
Black-eared miner The black-eared miner (''Manorina melanotis'') is an endangered honeyeater endemic to mallee woodland in south-eastern Australia. Taxonomy ''Manorina melanotis'' was identified by Francis Erasmus Wilson in 1911. It is closely related to the mu ...
, ''Manorina melanotis'' * Hooded robin (Tiwi Islands subspecies), ''Melanodryas cucullata melvillensis'' * Star finch (eastern and southern subspecies), ''Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda'' * Norfolk Island boobook, ''Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata'' * Forty-spotted pardalote, ''Pardalotus quadragintus'' *
Night parrot The night parrot (''Pezoporus occidentalis'') is a small parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. It has also been known as porcupine parrot, nocturnal ground parakeet, midnight cockatoo, solitaire, spinifex parrot and night parakeet. It i ...
, ''Pezoporus occidentalis'' *
Western ground parrot The western ground parrot (''Pezoporus flaviventris''; Noongar name ''kyloring'') is an endangered species of parrot endemic to Western Australia and is a close relative of the eastern ground parrot (''Pezoporus wallicus'') and the somewhat mor ...
, ''Pezoporus flaviventris'' * Black-throated finch (southern subspecies), ''Poephila cincta cincta'' *
Golden-shouldered parrot The golden-shouldered parrot (''Psephotellus chrysopterygius''), also known as the alwal, is a rare bird of southern Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia. A small parrot related to the more common red-rumped parrot (''Psephotus haematon ...
, ''Psephotus chrysopterygius'' *
Western whipbird Western whipbird may refer to the following bird species and subspecies: * ''Psophodes nigrogularis'', the black-throated whipbird ** subspecies: ''Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis'', 'western heath' ** subspecies: ''Psophodes nigrogularis obero ...
(western heath subspecies), ''Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis'' * Gould's petrel (nominate subspecies), ''Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera'' *
Antarctic tern The Antarctic tern (''Sterna vittata'') is a seabird in the family Laridae. It ranges throughout the southern oceans and is found on small islands around Antarctica as well as on the shores of the mainland. Its diet consists primarily of small fis ...
(New Zealand subspecies), ''Sterna vittata bethunei'' * Southern emu-wren (Fleurieu Peninsula and Mount Lofty subspecies), ''Stipiturus malachurus intermedius'' *
Abbott's booby Abbott's booby (''Papasula abbotti'') is an endangered seabird of the sulid family, which includes gannets and boobies. It is a large booby and is placed within its own monotypic genus. It was first identified from a specimen collected by Will ...
, ''Sula abbotti'' *
Chatham albatross The Chatham albatross (''Thalassarche eremita''), also known as the Chatham mollymawk or Chatham Island mollymawk,Robertson, C. J. R. (2003) is a medium-sized black-and-white albatross which breeds only on The Pyramid, a large rock stack in th ...
, ''Thalassarche eremita'' * Christmas thrush, ''Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurus'' * Buff-breasted button-quail, ''Turnix olivii'' * Masked owl (Tiwi Islands subspecies), ''Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis'' *
Regent honeyeater The regent honeyeater (''Anthochaera phrygia'') is a critically endangered bird endemic to southeastern Australia. It is commonly considered a flagship species within its range, with the efforts going into its conservation having positive eff ...
, ''Xanthomyza phrygia''


Mammals

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Blue whale The blue whale (''Balaenoptera musculus'') is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of and weighing up to , it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can ...
, ''Balaenoptera musculus'' *
Julia Creek dunnart The Julia Creek dunnart (''Sminthopsis douglasi'') is a marsupial with a buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100–135 mm with a tail of 60–105 mm to make a total length of 160–240 mm. ...
, ''Sminthopsis douglasi'' * Northern bettong, ''Bettongia tropica'' * Mountain pygmy-possum, ''Burramys parvus'' *
Christmas Island shrew The Christmas Island shrew (''Crocidura trichura''), also known as the Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island. It was variously placed as subspecies of the Asian gray shrew (''Crocidura at ...
, ''Crocidura attenuata trichura'' * Ampurta, ''Dasycercus hillieri'' *
Northern quoll The northern quoll (''Dasyurus hallucatus''), also known as the northern native cat, the North Australian native cat or the satanellus is a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia. Taxonomy The northern quoll is a member of the family Das ...
, ''Dasyurus hallucatus'' *
Tiger quoll The tiger quoll (''Dasyurus maculatus''), also known as the spotted-tail quoll, the spotted quoll, the spotted-tail dasyure, native cat or the tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus '' Dasyurus'' native to Australia. With male ...
(north Queensland subspecies), ''Dasyurus maculatus gracilis'' *Tiger quoll (southeastern mainland population), ''Dasyurus maculatus maculatus'' * Southern right whale, ''Eubalaena australis'' * Semon's leaf-nosed bat, greater wart-nosed horseshoe-bat, ''Hipposideros semoni'' *
Southern brown bandicoot The southern brown bandicoot (''Isoodon obesulus'') is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word ''). Taxonomy George Shaw ...
, ''Isoodon obesulus obesulus'' *
Rufous hare-wallaby The rufous hare-wallaby (''Lagorchestes hirsutus''), also known as the mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent, but naturally occurring populations are now confine ...
, ''Lagorchestes hirsutus'' unnamed subspecies (central mainland form) * Northern marsupial mole, ''Notoryctes caurinus'' *
Southern marsupial mole The southern marsupial mole (''Notoryctes typhlops''), also known as the itjaritjari () or itjari-itjari, is a mole-like marsupial found in the western central deserts of Australia. It is extremely adapted to a burrowing way of life. It has larg ...
, ''Notoryctes typhlops'' * Bridled nail-tail wallaby, ''Onychogalea fraenata'' * Dibbler, ''Parantechinus apicalis'' * Western barred bandicoot (Shark Bay subspecies), ''Perameles bougainville bougainville'' *
Eastern barred bandicoot The eastern barred bandicoot (''Perameles gunnii'') is a nocturnal, rabbit-sized marsupial endemic to southeastern Australia, being native to the island of Tasmania and mainland Victoria. It is one of three surviving bandicoot species in the g ...
, ''Perameles gunnii'' unnamed subspecies, mainland * Mahogany glider, ''Petaurus gracilis'' * Proserpine rock-wallaby, ''Petrogale persephone'' *
Red-tailed phascogale The red-tailed phascogale (''Phascogale calura''), also known as the red-tailed wambenger, red-tailed mousesack or kenngoor, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in inland areas of south-western Western Australia, and has been reintroduced in ...
, ''Phascogale calura'' * Long-footed potoroo, ''Potorous longipes'' *
Spotted cuscus The common spotted cuscus (''Spilocuscus maculatus''), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands. Names It is known as aklang or gabi in the ...
, ''Spilocuscus maculatus'' * Smoky mouse, ''Pseudomys fumeus'' * Hastings River mouse, ''Pseudomys oralis'' * Greater large-eared horseshoe bat, ''Rhinolophus philippinensis'' (large form) * Tasmanian devil ''Sarcophilus harrisii'' *
Kangaroo Island dunnart The Kangaroo Island dunnart (''Sminthopsis aitkeni'') is a dark sooty-grey coloured dunnart species first described in 1969, with paler underparts of its body. It has an average body length of 170–198 mm, a snout to anus length of 80– ...
, ''Sminthopsis aitkeni'' *
Julia Creek dunnart The Julia Creek dunnart (''Sminthopsis douglasi'') is a marsupial with a buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100–135 mm with a tail of 60–105 mm to make a total length of 160–240 mm. ...
, ''Sminthopsis douglasi'' * Sandhill dunnart, ''Sminthopsis psammophila'' *
Carpentarian rock rat The Carpentarian rock rat (''Zyzomys palatalis'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia. Taxonomy The description of the species was published by Darrell Kitchener in 1989, emerging from a revision of the g ...
, ''Zyzomys palatalis'' * Central rock rat, ''
Zyzomys pedunculatus The central rock rat (''Zyzomys pedunculatus''), also known as the central thick-tailed rock-rat, Macdonnell Range rock-rat, and Australian native mouse, is a Critically Endangered species of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to Australia. De ...
'' * Northern hairy-nosed wombat ''Lasiorhinus krefftii''


Vulnerable


Invertebrates

*'' Draculoides bramstokeri'' * Mount Arthur burrowing crayfish, ''Engaeus orramakunna'' * Burnie burrowing crayfish, ''Engaeus yabbimunna'' *'' Lasionectes exleyi'', a cave-dwelling remipede crustacean * Giant Gippsland earthworm, ''Megascolides australis'' * Bathurst copper, purple copper, ''Paralucia spinifera''


Fish

* Red handfish, ''Brachionichthys politus'' *
Grey nurse shark The sand tiger shark (''Carcharias taurus''), gray nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark or blue-nurse sand tiger, is a species of shark that inhabits subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. It inhabits the continental shelf, from sandy sho ...
, ''Carcharias taurus'' (west coast population) *
Great white shark The great white shark (''Carcharodon carcharias''), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large Lamniformes, mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major ocean ...
, ''Carcharodon carcharias'' *
Edgbaston goby ''Chlamydogobius squamigenus'', the Edgbaston goby, is a critically endangered species of goby endemic to the Edgbaston Reserve in Central Queensland, Australia where it occurs in small pools with clay bottoms and emergent tussock grasses. This ...
, ''Chlamydogobius squamigenus'' * Murray hardyhead, ''Craterocephalus fluviatilis'' * Swamp galaxias, ''Galaxias parvus'' * Saddled galaxias, ''Galaxias tanycephalus'' * Eastern dwarf galaxias, dwarf galaxias, ''Galaxiella pusilla'' * Murray cod, cod, , ''Maccullochella peelii'' * Blind gudgeon, ''Milyeringa veritas'' * Flinders Ranges gudgeon, ''Mogurnda clivicola'' * Balston's pygmy perch, ''Nannatherina balstoni'' *
Yarra pygmy perch The Yarra pygmy perch (''Nannoperca obscura'') is a species of temperate perch that is endemic to southeastern Australia. Distribution ''Nannoperca obscura'' occurs in the coastal drainages of southeastern Australia, preferring streams and la ...
, ''Nannoperca obscura'' * Ewens pygmy perch, golden pygmy perch, variegated pygmy perch, ''Nannoperca variegata'' *
Australian lungfish The Australian lungfish (''Neoceratodus forsteri''), also known as the Queensland lungfish, Burnett salmon and barramunda, is the only surviving member of the family Neoceratodontidae. It is one of only six extant lungfish species in the world. ...
, Queensland lungfish, ''Neoceratodus forsteri'' * Blind cave eel, ''Ophisternon candidum'' * Shannon paragalaxias, ''Paragalaxias dissimilis'' * Great Lake paragalaxias, ''Paragalaxias eleotroides'' * Dwarf sawfish, Queensland sawfish, ''Pristis clavata'' * Freshwater sawfish, largetooth sawfish, ''Pristis microdon'' * Green sawfish, dindagubba, narrowsnout sawfish, ''Pristis zijsron'' * Australian grayling, ''Prototroctes maraena'' * Honey blue-eye, ''Pseudomugil mellis'' *
Whale shark The whale shark (''Rhincodon typus'') is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of .McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, ...
, ''Rhincodon typus'' * Waterfall Bay handfish, ''
Sympterichthys ''Sympterichthys'' is a genus in the handfish family Brachionichthyidae with these species: Species * '' Sympterichthys moultoni'' Last A last is a mechanical form shaped like a human foot. It is used by shoemakers and cordwainers in the ...
'' species SIRO #T1996.01* Ziebell's handfish ''Sympterichthys'' species SIRO #T6.01


Frogs

* Orange-bellied frog, ''Geocrinia vitellina'' * Giant burrowing frog, ''Heleioporus australiacus'' *
Green and golden bell frog The green and golden bell frog (''Ranoidea aurea''), also named the green bell frog, green and golden swamp frog and green frog, is a species of ground-dwelling tree frog native to eastern Australia. Despite its classification and climbing abi ...
, ''Litoria aurea'' * Littlejohn's tree frog, heath frog, ''Litoria littlejohni'' * Wallum sedge frog, ''Litoria olongburensis'' * Peppered tree frog, ''Litoria piperata'' * Southern bell frog, growling grass frog, warty bell frog, ''Litoria raniformis'' * Alpine tree frog, Verreaux's alpine tree frog, ''Litoria verreauxii alpina'' *
Stuttering frog The stuttering frog (''Mixophyes balbus'') is a large species of frog that inhabits temperate and sub-tropical rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest in Australia. Distribution This frog's historical distribution ranged from the Timbarra River n ...
, southern barred frog (in Victoria), ''Mixophyes balbus'' * Magnificent brood frog, ''Pseudophryne covacevichae'' * Northern corroboree frog, ''Pseudophryne pengilleyi'' * Kroombit tinker frog, Pleione's torrent frog, ''Taudactylus pleione'' * Blue Mountains tree frog, ''Litoria citropa''


Reptiles

* Five-clawed worm-skink, long-legged worm-skink, ''Anomalopus mackayi'' * Pink-tailed worm-lizard, ''Aprasia parapulchella'' * Flinders Ranges worm-lizard, ''Aprasia pseudopulchella'' * Hermite Island worm-lizard, ''Aprasia rostrata rostrata'' *
Green turtle The green sea turtle (''Chelonia mydas''), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Chelonia''. Its range exten ...
, ''Chelonia mydas'' * Lord Howe Island gecko, ''Christinus guentheri'' *
Three-toed snake-tooth skink The three-toed snake-tooth skink (''Coeranoscincus reticulatus'') is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. It is endemic to south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It occurs in subtropical rainforest, wet scl ...
, ''Coeranoscincus reticulatus'' * Yinnietharra rock dragon, ''Ctenophorus yinnietharra'' * Airlie Island ctenotus, ''Ctenotus angusticeps'' * Lancelin Island skink, ''Ctenotus lancelini'' * Hamelin ctenotus, ''Ctenotus zastictus'' * Striped legless lizard, ''Delma impar'' * Striped-tailed delma, ''Delma labialis'' * Atherton delma, legless lizard, ''Delma mitella'' * Collared delma, ''Delma torquata'' * Ornamental snake, ''Denisonia maculata'' * Great desert skink, , ''Egernia kintorei'' * Yakka skink, ''Egernia rugosa'' * Baudin Island spiny-tailed skink, ''Egernia stokesii aethiops'' * Bell's turtle, Namoi River turtle, Bell's saw-shelled turtle, ''Elseya belli'' * Bellinger River emydura, ''Emydura macquarii signata'' *
Hawksbill turtle The hawksbill sea turtle (''Eretmochelys imbricata'') is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in the genus ''Eretmochelys''. The species has a global distribution, that is lar ...
, ''Eretmochelys imbricata'' *
Dunmall's snake Dunmall's snake (''Furina dunmalli'') is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Australia. Etymology The specific name, ''dunmalli'', is in honor of William "Bill" Dunmall, who collected the type specimen. ...
, ''Furina dunmalli'' *
Broad-headed snake The broad-headed snake (''Hoplocephalus bungaroides'') is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is restricted to the Sydney Basin in New South Wales, Australia. It is one of three snakes in the genus ''Hoplocephalus'', ...
, ''Hoplocephalus bungaroides'' * Christmas Island gecko, Lister's gecko, ''Lepidodactylus listeri'' * Mount Cooper striped lerista, ''Lerista vittata'' *
Pilbara olive python ''Liasis olivaceus barroni'' is a python found in the Pilbara region of northwest Australia. They are recognised as a subspecies of '' Liasis olivaceus'', separating the population from the olive python found to the east. It is a large snake, mos ...
, ''Liasis olivaceus barroni'' * Flatback turtle, ''Natator depressus'' * Pernatty knob-tail, ''Nephrurus deleani'' * Pedra Branca skink, red-throated skink, ''Niveoscincus palfreymani'' * Krefft's tiger snake (Flinders Ranges), ''Notechis ater ater'' * Bronzeback snake-lizard, ''Ophidiocephalus taeniatus'' * Brigalow scaly-foot, ''Paradelma orientalis'' *
Lord Howe Island skink The Lord Howe Island skink (''Oligosoma lichenigerum'') is a part of the native Australian reptiles’ classification. The Lord Howe Island Skink is a species of skink in the family Scincidae, located on Australia's Norfolk Island and Lord Howe ...
, ''Pseudemoia lichenigera'' * Christmas Island blind snake, ''Ramphotyphlops exocoeti'' * Fitzroy River turtle, ''Rheodytes leukops'' * Border thick-tailed gecko, ''Underwoodisaurus sphyrurus''


Birds

* Slender-billed thornbill (western subspecies), ''Acanthiza iredalei iredalei'' * Grey grasswren (Bulloo River subspecies), ''Amytornis barbatus barbatus'' * Thick-billed grasswren (eastern subspecies), ''Amytornis textilis modestus'' *Thick-billed grasswren (Gawler Ranges subspecies), ''Amytornis textilis myall'' * Lesser noddy (Australian subspecies), ''Anous tenuirostris melanops'' * Noisy scrub-bird, ''Atrichornis clamosus'' * Muir's corella, ''Cacatua pastinator pastinator'' * Baudin's black-cockatoo, long-billed black-cockatoo, ''Calyptorhynchus baudinii'' * Cape Barren goose (south-western subspecies), Recherche Cape Barren goose, ''Cereopsis novaehollandiae grisea'' * Western bristlebird, ''Dasyornis longirostris'' * Antipodean albatross, ''Diomedea antipodensis'' * Southern royal albatross, ''Diomedea epomophora'' *
Wandering albatross The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonie (''Diomedea exulans'') is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the last species of albatross to be desc ...
, ''Diomedea exulans'' *
Gibson's albatross Gibson's albatross (''Diomedea antipodensis gibsoni''), also known as the Auckland Islands wandering albatross or Gibson's wandering albatross, is a large seabird in the great albatross group of the albatross family. The common name and trinomi ...
, ''Diomedea gibsoni'' *
Red goshawk The red goshawk (''Erythrotriorchis radiatus'') is probably the rarest Australian bird of prey. It is found mainly in the savanna woodlands of northern Australia, particularly near watercourses. It takes a broad range of live prey, mostly birds. ...
, ''Erythrotriorchis radiatus'' * Crested shrike-tit (northern subspecies), northern shrike-tit, ''Falcunculus frontatus whitei'' *
Christmas Island frigatebird The Christmas frigatebird (''Fregata andrewsi''), or Christmas Island frigatebird, is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae which is an endemic breeder to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The Christmas frigatebird is a large light ...
, Andrew's frigatebird, ''Fregata andrewsi'' * White-bellied storm-petrel (Tasman Sea or Australasian subspecies), ''Fregetta grallaria grallaria'' * Squatter pigeon (southern subspecies), ''Geophaps scripta scripta'' *
Partridge pigeon The partridge pigeon (''Geophaps smithii'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threate ...
(western subspecies), ''Geophaps smithii blaauwi'' *Partridge pigeon (eastern subspecies), ''Geophaps smithii smithii'' *
Blue petrel The blue petrel (''Halobaena caerulea'') is a small seabird in the shearwater and petrel family, Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus ''Halobaena'', but is closely allied to the prions. It is distributed across the So ...
, ''Halobaena caerulea'' *
Malleefowl The malleefowl (''Leipoa ocellata'') is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related). It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental ca ...
, ''Leipoa ocellata'' * Northern giant-petrel, ''Macronectes halli'' *
Purple-crowned fairy-wren The purple-crowned fairywren (''Malurus coronatus'') is a species of bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is the largest of the eleven species in the genus ''Malurus'' and is Endemism, endemic to northern Australia. The species n ...
, (western subspecies), ''Malurus coronatus coronatus'' * White-winged fairywren (Barrow Island subspecies), Barrow Island black-and-white fairywren, ''Malurus leucopterus edouardi'' *White-winged fairy-wren (Dirk Hartog Island subspecies), Dirk Hartog black-and-white fairy-wren, ''Malurus leucopterus leucopterus'' * Crimson finch (white-bellied subspecies), ''Neochmia phaeton evangelinae'' * Christmas Island hawk-owl, ''Ninox natalis'' * Norfolk golden whistler, ''Pachycephala pectoralis xanthoprocta'' * Red-lored whistler, ''Pachycephala rufogularis'' *
Fairy prion The fairy prion (''Pachyptila turtur'') is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of blue-grey upperparts with a prominent dark "M" marking and white underneath. The sexes are alike. This is a small prion of the low subantarctic and sub ...
(southern subspecies), ''Pachyptila turtur subantarctica'' * Plains-wanderer, ''Pedionomus torquatus'' *
Scarlet robin The scarlet robin (''Petroica boodang'') is a common red-breasted Australasian robin in the passerine bird genus ''Petroica''. The species is found on continental Australia and its offshore islands, including Tasmania. The species was originall ...
(Norfolk Island subspecies), ''Petroica multicolor multicolor'' * Heard shag, ''Phalacrocorax nivalis'' *
Macquarie shag The Macquarie shag (''Leucocarbo purpurascens''), Macquarie Island shag or Macquarie Island cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean, about halfway between Australia and Antarctica. Taxonomy The Macquarie ...
, ''Phalacrocorax purpurascens'' * Sooty albatross, ''Phoebetria fusca'' * Princess parrot, Alexandra's parrot, ''Polytelis alexandrae'' *
Regent parrot The regent parrot or rock pebbler (''Polytelis anthopeplus'') is a bird found in southern Australia. It has predominantly yellow plumage with a green tail. The bird is found primarily in eucalyptus groves and other wooded areas of subtropical s ...
(eastern subspecies), ''Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoides'' * Superb parrot, ''Polytelis swainsonii'' *
Western whipbird Western whipbird may refer to the following bird species and subspecies: * ''Psophodes nigrogularis'', the black-throated whipbird ** subspecies: ''Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis'', 'western heath' ** subspecies: ''Psophodes nigrogularis obero ...
(eastern subspecies), ''Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster'' *
Western whipbird Western whipbird may refer to the following bird species and subspecies: * ''Psophodes nigrogularis'', the black-throated whipbird ** subspecies: ''Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis'', 'western heath' ** subspecies: ''Psophodes nigrogularis obero ...
(western mallee subspecies), ''Psophodes nigrogularis oberon'' * Soft-plumaged petrel, ''Pterodroma mollis'' *
Kermadec petrel The Kermadec petrel (''Pterodroma neglecta'') is a species of gadfly petrel in the family Procellariidae. It is 38 cm long with a wingspan of 100 cm. It is polymorphic, with light, dark and intermediate morphs known. It eats squid, fis ...
(western subspecies), ''Pterodroma neglecta neglecta'' * Australian painted snipe, ''Rostratula australis'' *
Antarctic tern The Antarctic tern (''Sterna vittata'') is a seabird in the family Laridae. It ranges throughout the southern oceans and is found on small islands around Antarctica as well as on the shores of the mainland. Its diet consists primarily of small fis ...
(Indian Ocean subspecies), ''Sterna vittata vittata'' * Southern emu-wren (Eyre Peninsula subspecies), ''Stipiturus malachurus parimeda'' * Mallee emu-wren, ''Stipiturus mallee'' * Lord Howe Island currawong, pied currawong (Lord Howe Island subspecies), ''Strepera graculina crissalis'' * Buller's albatross, ''Thalassarche bulleri'' * Indian yellow-nosed albatross, ''Thalassarche carteri'' *
Shy albatross The shy albatross, also known as shy mollymawk, (''Thalassarche cauta'', formerly ''Diomedea cauta''), is a medium-sized albatross that breeds on three remote islands off the coast of Tasmania, Australia, in the southern Indian Ocean. Its li ...
, ''Thalassarche cauta'' *
Grey-headed albatross The grey-headed albatross (''Thalassarche chrysostoma'') also known as the gray-headed mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at h ...
, ''Thalassarche chrysostoma'' *
Campbell albatross The Campbell albatross (''Thalassarche impavida'') or Campbell mollymawk, is a medium-sized mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds only on Campbell Island and the associated islet of Jeanette Marie, in a small New Zealand island group in t ...
, ''Thalassarche impavida'' *
Black-browed albatross The black-browed albatross (''Thalassarche melanophris''), also known as the black-browed mollymawk,Robertson, C. J. R. (2003) is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae; it is the most widespread and common member of its family. T ...
, ''Thalassarche melanophris'' * Pacific albatross, ''
Thalassarche The mollymawks are a group of medium-sized albatrosses that form the genus ''Thalassarche''. The name has sometimes been used for the genus ''Phoebetria'' as well, but these are usually called sooty albatrosses. They are restricted to the South ...
nov. sp.'' * Salvin's albatross, ''Thalassarche salvini'' *
White-capped albatross The white-capped albatross (''Thalassarche cauta steadi'') is a mollymawk that breeds on the islands off of New Zealand. Not all experts agree that this form should be recognized as a separate species from the shy albatross, ''Thalassarche caut ...
, ''Thalassarche steadi'' *
Lord Howe woodhen The Lord Howe woodhen (''Hypotaenidia sylvestris'') also known as the Lord Howe Island woodhen or Lord Howe (Island) rail, is a flightless bird of the rail family, (Rallidae). It is endemic to Lord Howe Island off the Australian coast. It is curr ...
, ''Tricholimnas sylvestris'' *
Black-breasted button-quail The black-breasted buttonquail (''Turnix melanogaster'') is a rare buttonquail endemic to eastern Australia. As with other buttonquails, it is unrelated to the true quails. The black-breasted buttonquail is a plump quail-shaped bird in lengt ...
, ''Turnix melanogaster'' * Abrolhos painted buttonquail, ''Turnix varius scintillans'' * Masked owl (northern subspecies), ''Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli''


Mammals

* Sub-antarctic fur-seal, ''Arctocephalus tropicalis'' * Sei whale, ''Balaenoptera borealis'' *
Fin whale The fin whale (''Balaenoptera physalus''), also known as finback whale or common rorqual and formerly known as herring whale or razorback whale, is a cetacean belonging to the parvorder of baleen whales. It is the second-longest species of ce ...
, ''Balaenoptera physalus'' * Boodie, burrowing bettong (Shark Bay subspecies), ''Bettongia lesueur lesueur'' *Boodie, burrowing bettong (Barrow and Boodie Islands subspecies), ''Bettongia lesueur'' unnamed subspecies * Dingo, ''Canis dingo'' * Large-eared pied bat, large pied bat, ''Chalinolobus dwyeri'' *
Kowari The Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL) is a 20 megawatt (MW) swimming pool nuclear research reactor. Officially opened in April 2007, it replaced the High Flux Australian Reactor as Australia's only nuclear reactor, and is locat ...
, ''Dasycercus byrnei'' *
Mulgara Mulgaras are the two small rat-sized species in the genus ''Dasycercus''. They are marsupial carnivores, closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls, that live in deserts and spinifex grasslands of arid Australia. They are nocturnal, ...
, ''Dasycercus cristicauda'' * Chuditch, western quoll, ''Dasyurus geoffroii'' * Spot-tailed quoll, spotted-tail quoll, tiger quoll (Tasmanian population), ''Dasyurus maculatus maculatus'' *
Golden bandicoot The golden bandicoot (''Isoodon auratus''; Yolngu: ''Wan'kurra'') is a short-nosed bandicoot found in northern Australia. It is the smallest of its genus. The golden bandicoot is now a threatened species. It was once found throughout much o ...
(mainland subspecies), ''Isoodon auratus auratus'' *Golden bandicoot (Barrow Island subspecies), ''Isoodon auratus barrowensis'' *
Southern brown bandicoot The southern brown bandicoot (''Isoodon obesulus'') is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word ''). Taxonomy George Shaw ...
(Nuyts Archipelago subspecies), ''Isoodon obesulus nauticus'' *
Spectacled hare-wallaby The spectacled hare-wallaby (''Lagorchestes conspicillatus'') is a species of macropod found in Australia and New Guinea. In Australia, a small sub-population is found on Barrow Island, while the mainland type is widespread, though in decline, ...
(Barrow Island subspecies), ''Lagorchestes conspicillatus conspicillatus'' *
Rufous hare-wallaby The rufous hare-wallaby (''Lagorchestes hirsutus''), also known as the mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent, but naturally occurring populations are now confine ...
(Bernier Island subspecies), ''Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieri'' *Rufous hare-wallaby (Dorre Island subspecies), ''Lagorchestes hirsutus dorreae'' * Banded hare-wallaby, marnine, munning, ''Lagostrophus fasciatus fasciatus'' * Greater stick-nest rat, wopilkara, ''Leporillus conditor'' * Barrow Island euro, ''Macropus robustus isabellinus'' * Greater bilby, ''Macrotis lagotis'' *
Humpback whale The humpback whale (''Megaptera novaeangliae'') is a species of baleen whale. It is a rorqual (a member of the family Balaenopteridae) and is the only species in the genus ''Megaptera''. Adults range in length from and weigh up to . The hu ...
, ''Megaptera novaeangliae'' *
Golden-backed tree-rat The golden-backed tree rat (''Mesembriomys macrurus'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, found only in Australia. It is present in the Charnley River–Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary Charnley River–Artesian Range Wildlife ...
, ''Mesembriomys macrurus'' *
Southern elephant seal The southern elephant seal (''Mirounga leonina'') is one of two species of elephant seals. It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora, as well as the largest extant marine mammal that is not a cetacean. It gets its ...
, ''Mirounga leonina'' *
Numbat The numbat (''Myrmecobius fasciatus''), also known as the noombat or walpurti, is an insectivorous marsupial. It is diurnal and its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. The species was once widespread across southern Australia, but ...
, ''Myrmecobius fasciatus'' * Australian sea-lion, ''Neophoca cinerea'' * Northern hopping-mouse, ''Notomys aquilo'' * Dusky hopping-mouse, wilkiniti, ''Notomys fuscus'' * Corben's long-eared bat, south-eastern long-eared bat, ''Nyctophilus corbeni'' *
Eastern barred bandicoot The eastern barred bandicoot (''Perameles gunnii'') is a nocturnal, rabbit-sized marsupial endemic to southeastern Australia, being native to the island of Tasmania and mainland Victoria. It is one of three surviving bandicoot species in the g ...
(Tasmania subspecies), ''Perameles gunnii gunnii'' * Yellow-bellied glider, fluffy glider (Wet Tropics subspecies), ''Petaurus australis'' unnamed subspecies. * Warru, black-footed rock-wallaby (MacDonnell Ranges race), ''Petrogale lateralis'' MacDonnell Ranges race *Black-footed rock-wallaby (West Kimberley race), ''Petrogale lateralis'' West Kimberley race * Recherche rock-wallaby, ''Petrogale lateralis hacketti'' * Black-flanked rock-wallaby, ''Petrogale lateralis lateralis'' * Pearson Island rock-wallaby, ''Petrogale lateralis pearsoni'' *
Brush-tailed rock-wallaby The brush-tailed rock-wallaby or small-eared rock-wallaby (''Petrogale penicillata'') is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus '' Petrogale''. It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from ab ...
, ''Petrogale penicillata'' *
Yellow-footed rock-wallaby The yellow-footed rock-wallaby (''Petrogale xanthopus''), formerly known as the ring-tailed rock-wallaby, is a member of the macropod family (the marsupial family that includes the kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, and wallaroos). Descript ...
(South Australia and New South Wales subspecies), ''Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus'' *
Long-nosed potoroo The long-nosed potoroo (''Potorous tridactylus'') is a small, hopping, gerbil-like mammal native to forests and shrubland of southeastern Australia and Tasmania. A member of the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae), it lives alone and digs at night f ...
(south-east mainland subspecies), ''Potorous tridactylus tridactylus'' * Carpentarian antechinus, ''Pseudantechinus mimulus'' * Western ringtail possum, ''Pseudocheirus occidentalis'' * Plains rat, ''Pseudomys australis'' * Djoongari, Alice Springs mouse, Shark Bay mouse, ''Pseudomys fieldi'' *
Pilliga mouse ''Pseudomys pilligaensis'', commonly known as the Pilliga mouse or poolkoo, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Its distribution comprises the Pilliga forest region of New South Wales, Australia, specimens have also been trapped in the ...
, ''Pseudomys pilligaensis'' *
Heath mouse The heath mouse (''Pseudomys shortridgei'') is a species of mouse in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice, found in Australia. Taxonomy A description of the species, based on material collected by Guy Shortridge at "Woyaline, ea ...
, ''Pseudomys shortridgei'' *
Spectacled flying-fox The spectacled flying fox (''Pteropus conspicillatus''), also known as the spectacled fruit bat, is a megabat that lives in Australia's north-eastern regions of Queensland. It is also found in New Guinea and on the offshore islands including Wood ...
, ''Pteropus conspicillatus'' * Grey-headed flying-fox, ''Pteropus poliocephalus'' * Pilbara leaf-nosed bat, ''Rhinonicteris aurantius'' (Pilbara form) *
Quokka The quokka (''Setonix brachyurus'', ) is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. It is the only member of the genus ''Setonix''. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivo ...
, ''Setonix brachyurus'' * Butler's dunnart, ''Sminthopsis butleri'' * Boullanger Island dunnart, ''Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensis'' * Common wombat (Bass Strait subspecies), ''Vombatus ursinus ursinus'' * False water rat, water mouse, ''Xeromys myoides'' * Arnhem rock-rat, Arnhem Land rock-rat, ''Zyzomys maini''


Conservation dependent

Four fish and one mammal are conservation dependent.


Fish

*
School shark The school shark (''Galeorhinus galeus'') is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, and the only member of the genus ''Galeorhinus''. Common names also include tope, tope shark, snapper shark, and soupfin shark. It is found worldwide in temperate ...
, eastern school shark, snapper shark, tope, soupfin shark, ''Galeorhinus galeus'' * Orange roughy, deep-sea perch, red roughy, ''Hoplostethus atlanticus'' * Eastern gemfish, ''Rexea solandri'' (eastern Australian population) *
Southern bluefin tuna The southern bluefin tuna (''Thunnus maccoyii'') is a tuna of the family Scombridae found in open southern Hemisphere waters of all the world's oceans mainly between 30°S and 50°S, to nearly 60°S. At up to and weighing up to , it is among ...
, ''Thunnus maccoyii''


Mammals

* Southern bent-wing bat, ''Miniopterus schreibersii bassanii''


Threatened species legislation


Federal legislation

''
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 The ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and cult ...
'' (Cth) and Regulations set up a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.


State legislation

Threatened species in Australia are protected by, or affected by, four main types of legislation: * Protected areas legislation (e.g., ''
National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 The ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974'' is the legislation passed by the New South Wales Parliament with the explicit intent of conserving the's natural and cultural heritage of the state of New South Wales; fostering public appreciation, u ...
'' (NSW)) * Threatened species legislation (e.g. Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (NSW), '' Threatened Species Protection Act 1995'' (Tas)) * Native vegetation conservation laws * Fisheries legislation.


See also

* List of Australian animals extinct in the Holocene * Fauna of Australia *
Invasive species in Australia Invasive species in Australia are a serious threat to the native biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic ('' genetic variabi ...
*
Land clearing in Australia Land clearing in Australia describes the removal of native vegetation and deforestation in Australia. Land clearing involves the removal of native vegetation and habitats, including the bulldozing of native bushlands, forests, savannah, woodlands ...
* Threatened species#Australia *
Woodchipping in Australia Woodchipping is the act and industry of chipping wood for pulp. Timber is converted to woodchips and sold, primarily, for paper manufacture. In Australia, woodchips are produced by clearcutting or thinning of native forests or plantations. I ...


References


External links

*Department of the Environment and Energy
EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna
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