Commonwealth of Australia
List of Threatened Ecological Communities Amendment (EC180) Instrument 2022
I, TANYA PLIBERSEK, Minister for the Environment and Water, pursuant to paragraph 184(a) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, amend the list referred to in section 181 of that Act by including in the list of threatened ecological communities in the endangered category:
Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community
as described in the Schedule to this instrument.
This instrument commences the day after registration.
Tanya Plibersek
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Tanya Plibersek
Minister for the Environment and Water
Dated ................ 26-9-22 .......................................................
SCHEDULE 1
Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community
The Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community is:
· An assemblage of native land snail and slug taxa that are characteristic of, or locally significant to, the Mount Kaputar region. The assemblage of snails and slugs comprises the following taxa, including informally recognised taxa yet to be formally named (and noting that scientific names are current at the time of listing and may change over time).
| Scientific name | Common name | |
|
| Annabellia bingara | New England carnivorous snail | |
| Austrochloritis kaputarensis | Mt Kaputar bristle snail | |
| Austrochloritis niangala | Tamworth uplands bristle snail | |
| Austrorhytida nandewarensis | Nandewar carnivorous snail | |
| Brevisentis kaputarensis | Mt Kaputar glass-snail | |
| Cralopa kaputarensis | bronze rippled pinwheel snail | |
| Discocharopa stenomphala | off-white pinwheel snail | |
| Galadistes pustulosa | Mt Kaputar woodland snail | |
| Kaputaresta nandewarensis | Nandewar pinhead snail | |
| Levidens ponderi | coarse-grooved glass-snail | |
| Scelidoropa nandewar | Nandewar Range pinwheel snail | |
| Vitellidelos kaputarensis | Mt Kaputar carnivorous snail | |
| Taxa yet to be formally named | |
| Charopidae NE2 | | |
| Charopidae NE6 | | |
| Charopidae NE11 | | |
| Charopidae NE19 | | |
| Thersites sp. nov. ‘Kaputar’ [Camaenidae NE27] | Kaputar keeled snail | |
| Triboniophorus sp. nov. ‘Kaputar’ | Kaputar pink slug | |
The main geographic area where the Mount Kaputar land snail and slug community occurs is the Kaputar subregion of the Nandewar bioregion in New South Wales plus areas where suitable environments occur within ten kilometres from the boundary of the Kaputar subregion. An outlying occurrence of suitable habitats for the ecological community also occurs at Hobden Hill National Park.
The range of suitable environments and habitats in the Mount Kaputar region that comprise the particular area of nature that the land snail and slug assemblage inhabits are:
· Native vegetation and landscapes at higher elevations of 1000 metres above sea level or more;
· Dry rainforests and vine thickets at elevations of 400 metres above sea level or more; and
· Boulder fields and scree slopes at elevations of 400 metres above sea level or more.