Ecological Assessment Report

J000206-002-R-Rev1                                                                                                                                                                              June 2016




                                                                            EPBC
                                                                 NC Act                                                                             Potential to occur in the    Recorded
                      Scientific Name      Common Name                       Act                              Habitat***
                                                                 Status*                                                                                 project area           Sightings****
                                                                           Status**

                                                                                      The Platypus is restricted to streams and suitable
                                                                                      freshwater bodies, including some shallow water storage
         Ornithorhynchus anatinus              Platypus            SL         -       lakes and ponds (Carrick et al. 2008). Its food is almost                Nill                 5 km
                                                                                      exclusively benthic macroinvertebrates and so the species
                                                                                      is water-dependent
                                                                                      Koala habitat can be broadly defined as any environment
                                                                                      containing koala food trees species or shelter trees, which
         Phascolarctos cinereus                 Koala              V          V                                                                            Potentially              5 km
                                                                                      may be used by Koalas for roosting, sheltering or breeding,
                                                                                      and which is sufficiently connected.
                                                                                      A variety of habitats, including rainforest, mangrove,
         Pteropus poliocephalus         Grey-headed Flying Fox     LC         V       Paperbark swamps, wet and dry sclerophyll forests, and               Potentially              5 km
                                                                                      cultivated areas.
                                                                                      Short-beaked echidnas thrive in a variety of habitats
         Tachyglossus aculeatus         Short-beaked echidna       SL         -       including open woodlands, savanna, agricultural areas,                Probable                5 km
                                                                                      semi-arid, and arid regions.
                                                                                      They require habitat including mangroves and the
         Xeromys myoides                    Water Mouse            V          V       associated saltmarsh, sedgelands, clay pans, heathlands                  Nill                 5 km
                                                                                      and freshwater wetlands.
         Fish
         Epinephelus daemelii               Black Rockcod          LC         V       Coastal and offshore reefs and islands                                                    Not Recorded
                                                                                      The Oxleyan Pygmy Perch occurs in dystrophic, acidic
                                                                                      freshwater systems which drain through sandy coastal
                                                                                      Banksia spp-dominated heath or wallum vegetation
                                                                                      assemblages. Wallum country has a well-distributed
                                                                                      annual rainfall (1016—1778 mm) and freshwater lakes,
                                                                                      creeks and wetlands are a prominent landscape feature.
         Nannoperca oxleyana             Oxleyan pygmy perch       V          E       Oxleyan Pygmy Perch have also been found at several                      Nill                 5 km
                                                                                      sites with different habitat characteristics such as creeks
                                                                                      that run into adjacent areas out of wallum heath. For
                                                                                      example, they have been recorded from an intermediate
                                                                                      eucalypt forest/heath community and from
                                                                                      rainforest/melaleuca swamp, and from among saltrushes in
                                                                                      an estuarine creek with high salt levels
                                                                                      The Honey Blue-eye inhabits slightly acidic (pH 4.4–6.8),
                                                                                      clear and tannin-stained lakes, streams and wetlands with
                                                                                      sandy or muddy bottoms in coastal heath (wallum)
         Pseudomugil mellis                Honey blue eye          V          V       ecosystems. The species usually occurs where there is                    Nill                 5 km
                                                                                      little or no flow, and the fish can find shelter in dense,
                                                                                      aquatic vegetation, such as emergent and submerged
                                                                                      sedges, along the margins
         Reptiles
         Anilios silvia                   Striped blind Snake      NT         -                                                                             Unlikley




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