List of Threatened Ecological Communities Amendment (Ec180) Instrument 2022 (Cth)

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.