2 David Low Way - Attachment 2 - Ecological and Bushfire Assessment Report 9-8-17

Threatened Species Likelihood of Occurrence Assessment ‐ Lot 71 on MCH 2854

Status:
NCR ‐ Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation: NT = Near Threatened; V = Vulnerable; E = Endangered.
EPBC ‐ Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: V = Vulnerable; E = Endangered; CE = Critically Endangered

Record Source
WO = Wildlife On‐line; PM = Protected Matters Search Tool



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Likelihood of
Scientific Name                       Common Name                                        Status             Record Source General habitat requirements                                                                                                                     Occurrence
                                                                                   NCR            EPBC
Litoria freycineti                    Wallum rocketfrog                             V               -             WO          Inhabits coastal wet heath where it can be found around sedge swamps, freshwater lakes and drainage lines on low nutrient soils.             Possible
                                                                                                                              Animals have been recorded a considerable distance from water in eucalypt forest near wet heath habitat.



Litoria olongburensis                 wallum sedgefrog                              V              V            WO,PM         Ephemeral, seasonal and permanent wetlands with emergent reeds, ferns and/or sedges, in undisturbed coastal wallum swamps. Griffith Unlikely
                                                                                                                              and colleagues (2003) describe wallum as sandmass heathland and shrubland, and various forest, woodland, sedgeland and grassland
                                                                                                                              communities

Crinia tinnula                        Wallum froglet                                V               -             WO          Restricted to freshwater swamps in lowland coastal areas and is found in associated vegetation communities such as heath, sedgeland          Possible
                                                                                                                              and woodland on nutrient‐poor sandy soils. Acidic swamps and lakes in these areas provide essential breeding habitat for wallum‐
                                                                                                                              dependent frog species. The wallum froglet has also been observed in disturbed heath habitat.


Pezoporus wallicus wallicus           Ground parrot                                 V               -             WO          In south‐east Queensland it occurs mostly in closed, subtropical graminoid heathlands (consisting of grass‐trees, with a high diversity of   Possible
                                                                                                                              sedges, rushes and low shrubs), either moist or dry. Within heathlands, dry habitats are used from mid autumn to late spring, and wet
                                                                                                                              habitats at other times. It is sometimes found in open Banksia woodlands with a heath understorey, in closed fernland around shallow
                                                                                                                              creeks on plains, or in sedges at swamp margins


Turnix melanogaster                   Black‐breasted button‐quail                   V              V            WO,PM         Restricted to rainforests and forests, mostly in areas with 770‐1200 mm rainfall per annum. They prefer drier low closed forests,            Possible
                                                                                                                              particularly semi‐evergreen vine thicket, low microphyll vine forest, araucarian microphyll vine forest and araucarian notophyll vine
                                                                                                                              forest. They may also be found in low, dense acacia thickets and, in littoral area, in vegetation behind sand dunes.



Xeromys myoides                       Water mouse                                   V              V            WO,PM         Habitat includes mangrove communities and adjacent sedgelands, grasslands and freshwater wetlands. Mangrove communities in this          Unlikely
                                                                                                                              region are typically comprised of Avicenna marina var. australasica , Rhizophora stylosa , Bruguiera gymnorrhiza , Aegiceras
                                                                                                                              corniculatum and Ceriops tagal var. australis . In south‐east Queensland the upper tidal areas on the shoreward side of the mangrove
                                                                                                                              zone often support sedgelands or salt meadows, comprised of Juncus kraussii, Baumea juncea, B. rubiginosa, Fimbristylis
                                                                                                                              ferruginea and Sporobolus virginicus. The adjacent terrestrial communities are typically freshwater wetland, coastal woodland or wet
                                                                                                                              heathland dominated variously by species such as Melaleuca quinquenervia, Corymbia intermedia, Casuarina glauca, Eucalyptus
                                                                                                                              robusta, Leptospermum liversidgei, Gahnia sieberiana and Caustis blakei. A supralittoral bank may also be present and be utilised by the
                                                                                                                              Water Mouse for nesting.

Phascolarctos cinereus                Koala                                         V              V            WO,PM         Koalas inhabit a range of temperate, sub‐tropical and tropical forest, woodland and semi‐arid communities dominated by species from          Possible
                                                                                                                              the genus Eucalyptus.




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