This is a list of animals listed as endangered under the terms of
Queensland
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Nature Conservation Act 1992
The ''Nature Conservation Act 1992'' is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, Australia, that, together with subordinate legislation, provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota.
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''. The list is based on the most recent regulations, the Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020.
Invertebrates
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Adclarkia dawsonensis'' (boggomoss snail)
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Adclarkia dulacca'' (Dulacca woodland snail)
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Argyreus hyperbius inconstans'' (Australian fritillary butterfly)
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Euastacus eungella
''Euastacus eungella'' is a species of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae
The Parastacidae are the family of freshwater crayfish found in the Southern Hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana-distributed taxon, with extant membe ...
'' (Eungella spiny crayfish)
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Euastacus hystricosus'' (Conondale spiny crayfish)
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Euastacus monteithorum'' (Monteith’s spiny crayfish)
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Euastacus robertsi'' (Robert’s crayfish)
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Tenuibranchiurus glypticus'' (swamp crayfish)
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Trisyntopa scatophaga'' (antbed moth)
Fish
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Carcharias taurus'' (greynurse shark)
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Chlamydogobius micropterus'' (Elizabeth Springs goby)
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Chlamydogobius squamigenus'' (Edgbaston goby)
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Hippocampus whitei'' (White’s seahorse)
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Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis (redfin blue eye)
Amphibians
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Litoria nannotis'' (torrent treefrog)
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Litoria rheocola'' (common mist frog)
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Mixophyes fleayi'' (Fleay’s barred frog)
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Philoria kundagungan'' (mountain frog)
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Rheobatrachus vitellinus'' (northern gastric brooding frog)
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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 ...
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Taudactylus rheophilus'' (northern tinkerfrog)
Reptiles
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Anomalopus mackayi
''Anomalopus mackayi'', commonly known as the five-clawed worm skink, long-legged worm skink, and MacKay's burrowing skink, is a species of smooth-scaled burrowing skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to eastern Austra ...
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Caretta caretta
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 ...
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Concinnia frerei
The stout barsided skink (''Concinnia frerei'') is a species of skink found in Queensland
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'' (Bartle Frere bar-sided skink)
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Dermochelys coriacea
The leatherback sea turtle (''Dermochelys coriacea''), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights ...
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Elusor macrurus
The Mary River turtle (''Elusor macrurus'') is an endangered short-necked turtle that is endemic to the Mary River in south-east Queensland, Australia. Although these turtles were known to inhabit the Mary River for nearly 30 years, it was not ...
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Eretmochelys imbricata
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 large ...
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Hemiaspis damelii
''Hemiaspis damelii'' is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. It is a relatively small species of elapid with a mean snout-vent length (SVL) of . The species is endemic to eastern Australia and is most commonly found across centra ...
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Karma tryoni
''Silvascincus tryoni'', the Border Ranges blue-spectacled skink or forest skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is endemic to the McPherson Range bordering New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
Etymology
The specific n ...
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Lepidochelys olivacea
The olive ridley sea turtle (''Lepidochelys olivacea''), also known commonly as the Pacific ridley sea turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae. The species is the second-smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in t ...
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Lerista allanae
Allan's lerista (''Lerista allanae''), also known commonly as Allan's skink and the greater robust fine-lined slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. This rare species is endemic to Queensland, Australia.
Etymology
The ...
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Tympanocryptis condaminensis'' (Condamine earless dragon)
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Tympanocryptis wilsoni'' (Roma earless dragon)
Birds
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Amytornis barbatus barbatus'' (grey grasswren (Bulloo))
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Amytornis dorotheae'' (Carpentarian grasswren)
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Botaurus poiciloptilus'' (Australasian bittern)
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Calidris canutus'' (red knot)
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Casuarius casuarius johnsonii'' (southern cassowary (southern population))
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Charadrius mongolus
The Siberian sand plover (''Charadrius mongolus'') is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The International Ornithologists' Union split the Tibetan sand plover from the lesser sand plover and changed its vernacular name to Siberian san ...
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Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni'' (Coxen’s fig-parrot)
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Dasyornis brachypterus
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 ...
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Epthianura crocea macgregori'' (yellow chat (Dawson))
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Erythrotriorchis radiatus'' (red goshawk)
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Erythrura gouldiae'' (Gouldian finch)
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Lathamus discolor
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 ...
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Limosa lapponica menzbieri'' (Northern Siberian bar-tailed godwit)
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Macronectes giganteus
The southern giant petrel (''Macronectes giganteus''), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar northern giant pet ...
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Neochmia phaeton evangelinae'' (crimson finch (white-bellied subspecies))
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Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda'' (star finch (eastern subspecies))
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Numenius madagascariensis'' (eastern curlew)
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Pezoporus occidentalis'' (night parrot)
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Poephila cincta cincta'' (black-throated finch (white-rumped subspecies))
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Psephotus chrysopterygius'' (golden-shouldered parrot)
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Rostratula australis'' (Australian painted snipe)
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Sternula nereis exsul'' (New Caledonian fairy tern)
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Thalassarche cauta'' (shy albatross)
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Thalassarche chrysostoma
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 ...
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Turnix olivii'' (buff-breasted button-quail)
Mammals
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Antechinus argentus'' (silver-headed antechinus)
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Antechinus arktos'' (black-tailed antechinus)
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Bettongia tropica
The northern bettong (''Bettongia tropica'') is a small, endangered, gerbil-like mammal native to forests in northeast Australia. A member of the rat-kangaroo family ( Potoroidae), it moves by hopping and lives in burrows, feeding at night on ro ...
'' (northern bettong)
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Dasyurus maculatus gracilis'' (spotted-tailed quoll (northern subspecies))
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Dasyurus maculatus maculatus'' (spotted-tailed quoll (south-eastern mainland population))
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Hipposideros semoni'' (Semon’s leaf-nosed bat)
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Macroderma gigas'' (ghost bat)
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Macrotis lagotis'' (greater bilby)
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Notomys fuscus'' (dusky hopping-mouse)
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Onychogalea fraenata'' (bridled nailtail wallaby)
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Petaurus australis unnamed subsp.'' (yellow-bellied glider (northern subspecies))
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Petaurus gracilis'' (mahogany glider)
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Petrogale persephone'' (Proserpine rock-wallaby)
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Pseudomys australis'' (plains rat)
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Pseudomys oralis'' (Hastings River mouse)
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Pteropus conspicillatus'' (spectacled flying-fox)
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Rhinolophus philippinensis
The large-eared horseshoe bat (''Rhinolophus philippinensis'') is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, lin ...
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Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus
''Saccolaimus'' is a genus of the family Emballonuridae, small insectivorous bats with distinctive sheathtails and pouches at the wrist.
The species have been placed with genus ''Taphozous'', in subgenus ''Taphozous'', although an elevation to ...
'' (bare-rumped sheathtail bat)
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Sminthopsis douglasi'' (Julia Creek dunnart)
References
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External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nature Conservation Act endangered fauna of Queensland, List of
Lists of endangered species
Lists of animals of Australia
Endangered fauna
Environment of Queensland