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Complete List of Threatened Species, Populations and Communities in Pittwater
Endangered Ecological Communities
- Coastal Saltmarsh - Known
- Duffys Forest Ecological Community - Known
- Freshwater Wetlands on Coastal Floodplains - Known
- Littoral Rainforest - Known
- Pittwater Spotted Gum Forest - Known
- River-Flat Eucalypt Forest on Coastal Floodplains - Known
- Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest - Known
- Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains - Known
- Sydney Freshwater Wetlands - Known
- Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest - Predicted
- Themeda Grassland on Seacliffs and Coastal Headlands - Known
Fungi
- Camarophyllopsis kearneyi - Endangered - Predicted
- Hygrocybe anomala var. ianthinomarginata - Vulnerable - Predicted
- Hygrocybe aurantipes - Vulnerable - Predicted
- Hygrocybe austropratensis - Endangered - Predicted
- Hygrocybe collucera - Endangered - Predicted
- Hygrocybe griseoramosa - Endangered - Predicted
- Hygrocybe lanecovensis - Endangered - Predicted
- Hygrocybe reesiae - Vulnerable - Predicted
- Hygrocybe rubronivea - Vulnerable - Predicted
Plants
Herbs and Forbs
- Coastal (Sand) Spurge (Chamaesyce psammogeton) - Endangered - Known
Mallees
- Camfield's (Heart-leaved) Stringybark (Eucalyptus camfieldii) - Vulnerable - Known
Orchids
- Angus's Onion Orchid (Microtis angusii) - Endangered - Known
- Botany Bay Bearded Orchid (Pterostylis sp. Botany Bay) - Endangered - Predicted
- Bauer's Midge Orchid (Genoplesium baueri R.Br.) - Vulnerable - Predicted
- Slaty Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum fuscum) - Vulnerable - Predicted
Shrubs
- Netted Bottle Brush (Callistemon linearifolius) - Vulnerable - Known
- Darwinia biflora - Vulnerable - Known
- Epacris purpurascens var. purpurascens - Vulnerable - Known
- Caley's Grevillea (Grevillea caleyi) - Endangered - Known
- Haloragodendron lucasii - Endangered - Known
- Leptospermum deanei - Vulnerable - Known
- Deane's Paperbark (Melaleuca deanei) - Vulnerable - Known
- Curved Rice-flower (Pimelea curviflora var. curviflora) - Vulnerable - Known
- Glandular Pink-bell (Tetratheca glandulosa) - Vulnerable - Known
- Narrow-leafed Wilsonia (Wilsonia backhousei) - Vulnerable - Known
- Bynoe's Wattle (Acacia bynoeana) - Endangered - Predicted
- Sunshine Wattle (Acacia terminalis subsp. terminalis) - Endangered - Predicted
- Hibbertia puberula - Endangered - Predicted
- Magenta Lillypilly (Syzygium paniculatum) - Vulnerable - Known
- Hairy Geebung (Persoonia hirsuta) - Endangered - Known
Animals
Amphibians
- Giant Burrowing Frog (Heleioporus australiacus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Red-crowned Toadlet (Pseudophryne australis) - Vulnerable - Known
Aquatic Invertebrates
- Adam's Emerald Dragonfly (Archaeophya adamsi) - Vulnerable - Known
- Giant Dragonfly - Endangered - Known
Bats
- Eastern Bentwing-bat (Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis) Vulnerable - Known
- Eastern Freetail-bat (Mormopterus norfolkensis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Large-footed Myotis (Myotis adversus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Greater Broad-nosed Bat (Scoteanax rueppellii) - Vulnerable - Known
- Little Bent-winged Bat (Miniopterus australis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Large-eared PIed Bat (Chalinolobus dwyeri) - Vulnerable - Known
Birds
- Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) - Endangered - Known
- Sanderling (Calidris alba) - Vulnerable - Known
- Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) - Vulnerable - Known
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) - Vulnerable - Known
- Glossy Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) - Vulnerable - Known
- Greater Sand-plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) - Vulnerable - Known
- Lesser Sand-plover (Charadrius mongolus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Eastern Bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) - Endangered - Known
- Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) - Vulnerable - Known
- Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) - Endangered - Known
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - Vulnerable - Known
- Cotton Pygmy-goose (Nettapus coromandelianus) - Endangered - Known
- Barking Owl (Ninox connivens) - Vulnerable - Known
- Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) - Vulnerable - Known
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) - Vulnerable - Known
- Painted Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) - Endangered - Known
- Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) - Endangered - Known
- Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) - Vulnerable - Known
- Regent Honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) - Endangered - Known
- Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) - Vulnerable - Known
Endangered Populations
- Koala population in the Pittwater LGA (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Known
- Squirrel Glider Endangered Population on Barrenjoey Penninsula - Known
Marsupials
- Eastern Pygmy-possum (Cercartetus nanus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus) - Endangered - Known
- Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Squirrel Glider - Vulnerable - Known
Reptiles
- Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) - Vulnerable - Known
- Leathery Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) - Vulnerable - Known
- Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides) - Endangered - Known
- Rosenberg's Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi) - Vulnerable - Known
- Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) - Endangered - Predicted
Updated: 07 Dec 2011