Flora and Fauna list
Geelong and District
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FROGS |
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| Crinia signifera | Common Froglet |
| Limnodynastes dumerili | Pobblebonk / Banjo Frog |
| Limnodynastes tasmaniensis | Spotted Marsh Frog |
| Litoria ewingii | Ewing's Tree Frog |
| Litoria raniformis | Growling Grass Frog |
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MAMMALS |
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| Canis vulpes* | Red Fox |
| Chalinolobus gouldii | Gould's Wattled Bat |
| Chalinolobus morio | Chocolate Wattle Bat |
| Hydyomys chrysogaster | Water Rat |
| Miniopterus schreibersii | Common Bent-wing Bat |
| Mormopterus planiceps | Southern Freetail Bat |
| Mus musculus* | House Mouse |
| Nycloptiilus geoffroyi | Lesser Long-eared Bat |
| Pseudocheirus peregrinus | Common Ringtail Possum |
| Pteropus poliocephalus | Grey-headed Flying-fox |
| Rattus rattus* | Black Rat |
| Tafarida austratis | White-striped Freetail Bat |
| Trichosurus vulpecula | Common Brush-tail Possum |
| Vespadelus darlingtoni/regulus | Forest Bat |
| Vespadelus vultumus | Little Forest Bat |
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FISH |
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| Anguilla austratis | Short-finned Eel |
| Cyprinus carpio* | Common Carp |
| Galaxias cleaveri | Mudfish |
| Galaxias maculatus | Common Galaxias |
| Galaxias truttaceus | Spotted Galaxias |
| Gambusia affinis* | Mosquito Fish |
| Geotria australis | Pouched Lamprey |
| Nannoperca australis | Southern Pygmy Perch |
| Perca fluviatilis* | English Perch |
| Prototroctes marsena | Australian Grayling |
| Retropinna semoni | Australian Smelt |
| Tinca tinca | Tench |
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PLANTS |
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| Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| Acacia implexa | Lightwood |
| Acacia meamsii | Black Wattle |
| Acacia melanoxylon | Blackwood |
| Acacia paradoxa | Prickly Hedge Wattle |
| Acacia pycnantha | Golden Wattle |
| Acacia verticillata | Prickly Moses |
| Acaena echinata | Sheep's Butt |
| Agrostis capillads* | Brown-top Bent |
| Alisma plantaga-aquatica | Water Plantain |
| Allocasuarina cunninghamiana* | River She-oak |
| Allocasuarina liftoralis | Black She-oak |
| Anagallis arvensis* | Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Arctotheca calendula* | Cape Weed |
| Asphodelus fistulosus* | Onion Weed |
| Aster subuatus | Shrub Aster |
| Avena sativa* | Wild Oat |
| Azolla filiculoides | Pacific / Red Azolla |
| Beta vulgaris* | Wild Beet |
| Bromus catharticus* | Prairie Grass |
| Bulboschoenus caldwellii | Sea Club Rush |
| Bursaria spinosa | Sweet Bursaria |
| Callistemon paludosus | River Bottle-brush |
| Calostegia sepium | Large Bindweed |
| Carbaria draba* | Hoary Cress |
| Carex appressa | Tall Sedge |
| Cerastium glomeratum* | Mouse Ear Chick Weed |
| Chenopodium album* | Fat Hen |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass |
| Conium maculatum* | Hemlock |
| Conyza bonariensis | Tall Fleablane |
| Coprosma quadrifida | Prickly Currant Bush |
| Coprosma repens* | Mirror Bush |
| Correa reflexa | Common Correa |
| Cotoneaster sp.* | Cotoneaster |
| Cotula coronopifolia* | Water Buttons |
| Crassula helmsii | Swamp Stonecrop |
| Critesium marinum ssp.* | Leporinum Barley Grass |
| Danthonia caespitosa | Wallaby Grass |
| Danthonia setacea | Bristly Wallaby Grass |
| Disbchlis disticholphylla | Salt Grass |
| Dodonaea cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hop-bush |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush |
| Eleocharis sphacelata | Tall Spike-rush |
| Epilobium billardierianum ssp. cinereum | Variable Willow Herb |
| Epilobium hirtigerum | Hairy Willow Herb |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum |
| Eucalyptus ovata | Swamp Gum |
| Eucalyptus pellita* | Red Mahogany |
| Eucalyptus robusta* | Swamp Mahogany |
| Eucalyptus viminalis | Manna Gum |
| Foeniculum vulgare* | Fennel |
| Fumada muralis* | Fumitory |
| Galenia pubescens* | Carpet Weed |
| Galium aparine* | Cleavers Bedstraw |
| Geranium molle* | Dove's-foot Cranes-bill |
| Goodenia ovata | Hop Goodenia |
| Heiminotheca echioides* | Bristly Ox-tongue Thistle |
| Helichrysum dendroideum | Tree Everlasting |
| Hoicus lanatus* | Yorkshire Fog Grass |
| Hymenanthera dentata | Tree Violet |
| Hypochoeris radicata* | Flat Weed |
| Isolepis cemua | Grassy Club-rush |
| Juncus acutus* | African Spiny Rush |
| Juncus sp. | Rush |
| Lemna tdsuica | Duck Weed |
| Lepidium campestre* | Field Cress / Pepper Wort |
| Leptospermum lanigerum | Woolly Tea-tree |
| Lolium perenne* | Perennial Rye Grass |
| Lomandra filiformis | Wattle Mat Rush |
| Malva nicaeensis* | Mallow of Nice |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo |
| Medicago arabica* | Spotted Medic |
| Medicaga polymorpha* | Burr Medic |
| Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah |
| Melilotus indica* | Sweet / King Island Melilot |
| Modiola caroliniana* | Carolina Mallow |
| Muehlenbeckia florulenta / cunninghamii | Tangled Lignum |
| Myoporum viscosum | Sticky Boobialla |
| Myriophylium propinquum | Water Milfoil |
| Olearia ramulosa | Twiggy Daisy-bush |
| Oxalis purpurea Large* | Flower Sweet Sorrel |
| Ozothamnus fertugineus | Tree Everlasting |
| Paspalum distichum* | Water Couch |
| Pennisetum clandestinum* | Kikuyu Grass |
| Persicada decipiens* | Slender Knotweed |
| Persicada maculosa* | Spotted Knotweed |
| Phalaris aquatica* | Toowoomba Canary Grass |
| Phoenix dactylifera?* | Date Palm? |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed |
| Pinus radiata* | Radiata / Monterey Pine |
| Pittosporum undulatum* | Sweet Pittosporum |
| Plantago coronopus | Bucks Horn Plantain |
| Plantago lanceolata | Ribwort |
| Plantago major | Greater Plantain |
| Poa ensiformis? / clelandii? | Poa |
| Poa labillardieri | Poa / Common Tussosk |
| Polygonum aviculare* | Hogweed |
| Prunus sp.* | Prunus |
| Raphanus raphanistrum* | Wild Radish |
| Romulus rosea* | Onion Grass |
| Rubus fruticosus spp. agg.* | Blackberry |
| Rumex bidens | Mud / Floating Dock |
| Rumex crispus* | Curled Dock |
| Salix sp.* | Willow |
| Carcocomia quinqueflora | Beaded Glasswort |
| Schoenopictus validus | River Club-rush |
| Senecio lautus | Variable Groundsel |
| Senecio quadridentalis | Cotton Fire Weed |
| Solanum laciniatum | Kangaroo Apple |
| Solanum nigrum* | Black Nightshade |
| Sonchus oleraceus | Common Sow Thistle |
| Sporobolus virginicus | Salt Couch |
| Taraxacum officinale* | Dandelion |
| Tetrarrhena distichophylla | Hairy Rice Grass |
| Trapogon porrifolius* | Salsify |
| Trifolium arvense* | Hare's-foot Clover |
| Trifolium angustifolium* | Narrow-leaf Clover |
| Triglochin procera | Water Ribbons |
| Triglochin striata | Streaked Arrow Grass |
| Typha domingensis | Cumbungi / Reed Mace / Bulrush |
| Vicia sativa ssp.* | Sativa Common Vetch |
| Zantedeschia aethiopica* | White Arum Lily |
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BIRDS |
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| Botaurus poiciloptilus | Australasian Bittern |
| Tachybaptus novaehollandiae | Australasian Grebe |
| Tadorna tadornoides | Australasian Shelduck |
| Anas rhynchotis | Australasian Shoveler |
| Threskiornis molucca | Australasian White Ibis |
| Falco lonipennis | Australian Hobby |
| Pelecanus conspicillatus | Australian Pelican |
| Porzana fluminea | Australian Spotted Crake |
| Porzana pusilla | Baillon's Crake |
| Tyto alba | Barn Owl |
| Milvuc migrans | Black Kite |
| Cygnus atratus | Black Swan |
| Charadrius (Elseyornis) melanops | Black-fronted Dotterel |
| Elanus exillaris | Black-shouldered Kite |
| Gallinula ventralis | Black-tailed Native-hen |
| Himantopus himantopus | Black-winged Stilt |
| Neophema chrysostoma | Blue-winged Parrot |
| Crus rubicunda | Brolga |
| Accipiter fasciatus | Brown Goshawk |
| Gallirallus philippensis | Buff-banded Rail |
| Sterna caspia | Caspian Tern 1 |
| Ardea ibis | Cattle Egret 1 |
| Anas castanea | Chestnut Teal |
| Tringa nebularia | Common Greenshank 1 |
| Platycercus elegans elegans | Crimson Rosella |
| Anhinga melanogaster | Darter |
| Gallinula tenebrosa | Dusky Moorhen |
| Fulica atra | Eurasian Coot |
| Neophema chrysogaster | Orange-bellied Parrot |
| Cacomantis flabelliformis | Fantailed Cuckoo |
| Cacatya roseicapilla | Galah |
| Phalacrocorax carbo | Great Cormorant |
| Ardea alba | Great Egret 1 |
| Anas gracilis | Grey Teal |
| Aythya australis | Hardhead |
| Poliocephalus poliocephalus | Hoary-headed Grebe |
| Chrysococcyx basalis | Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo |
| Ardea imtermedia | Intermediate Egret |
| Gallinago hardwickii | Latham's Snipe 1 |
| Dryolimnas pectoralis | Lewin's Rail |
| Phalacrocorax sulcirostris | Little Black Cormorant |
| Ardea (Egretta) garzetta | Little Egret |
| Phalacrocorax melanoleucos | Little Pied Cormorant |
| Anseranas semipalmata | Magpie Goose |
| Anas platyrhynchos | Mallard* |
| Vanellus miles | Masked Lapwing / Spur-winged Plover |
| Glossopsitta concinna | Musk Lorikeet |
| Nycticorax caledonicus | Nankeen / Rufous Night Heron |
| Phylidonyris novaehollandiae | New Holland Honeyeater |
| Anas superciliosa | Pacific Black Duck |
| Larus pacificus | Pacific Gull |
| Cuculus pallidus | Pallid Cuckoo |
| Malacorhynchus membranaceus | Pink-eared Duck |
| Porphyrio porphyrio | Purple Swamphen |
| Glossopsitta porphyrocephala | Purple-crowned Lorikeet |
| Trichoglossus haematodus | Rainbow Lorikeet |
| Anthochaera carunculata | Red Wattlebird |
| Charadrius ruficapillus | Red-capped Plover |
| Psephotus haematonotus | Red-rumped Parrot |
| Rock Dove* | |
| Platalea regia | Royal Spoonbill |
| Todiramphus sanctus | Sacred Kingfisher |
| Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus | Scaly-breasted Lorikeet |
| Calidris acuminata | Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 1 |
| Larus novaehollandiae | Silver Gull |
| Acanthagenys rufogularis | Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater |
| Pardalotus punctatus | Spotted Pardalote |
| Streptopelia chinensis | Spotted Turtle-Dove* |
| Threskiornis spinicollis | Straw-necked Ibis |
| Malurus cyaneus | Superb Fairy-wren |
| Chilidonias hybridus | Whiskered Tern |
| Ardea novaehollandiae | White-faced Heron |
| Malithreptus lunatus | White-naped Honeyeater |
| Ardea pacifica | White-necked Heron |
| Lichenostomus penicillatus | White-plumed Honeyeater |
| Melithreptus albogularis | White-throated Needletail |
| Platalea flavipes | Yellow-billed Spoonbill |
| Lichenostomus chrysops | Yellow-faced Honeyeater |
| Acanthiza chrysorrhoa | Yellow-rumped Thornbill |
* - Introduced species
1 - Protected by JAMBA (Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement) and CAMBA (China-Australia Migatory Bird Agreement)
Threatened Wildlife;
Vulnerable: Australian Grayling, Common Bent-wing Bat
Restricted, rare or both: Spotted Galaxias
Intermediate, -threatened: Pouched Lamprey
Requiring careful monitoring: Latham's Snipe
Extinct - re-introduced: Magpie Goose
Sources:
Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment
From Buckley's to the Break
Morcombe, M. (2000) Field Guide to Australian Birds. Archerfield. Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd.