Threatened fauna of Australia are those species and subspecies of birds, fish, frogs, insects, mammals, molluscs, crustaceans and reptiles to be found in Australia that are in danger of becoming extinct. This list is the list proclaimed under the Australian federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The classifications are based on those used by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), however IUCN and Australian rankings do differ.
One fish is listed as extinct in the wild.
Pedder galaxias, Galaxias pedderensisFour mammals, six birds, two reptiles, three fish and five other species are listed as critically endangered.
Amphipod crustacean Austrogammarus australisFreshwater snail Beddomeia tumidaBoggomoss snail, Dawson Valley snail, Adclarkia dawsonensisMargaret River hairy marron, Cherax tenuimanusLord Howe Island stick insect, Dryococelus australisGolden sun moth, Synemon planaMitchell's rainforest snail, Thersites mitchellaeGrey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus - east coast populationWestern trout minnow, western trout galaxias, Galaxias truttaceus hesperiusSpeartooth shark, Glyphis glyphisOpal cling goby, Stiphodon semoniWestern swamp tortoise, Pseudemydura umbrinaLeathery turtle, leatherback turtle, luth, Dermochelys coriaceaScrubtit (King Island subspecies), Acanthornis magnus greenianusSpotted quail-thrush (Mt Lofty Ranges subspecies), Cinclosoma punctatum anachoretaYellow chat (Dawson subspecies), Epthianura crocea macgregoriOrange-bellied parrot, Neophema chrysogasterRound Island petrel, Pterodroma arminjonianaHerald petrel, Pterodroma heraldicaGilbert's potoroo, Potorous gilbertiiChristmas Island pipistrelle, Pipistrellus murrayiBare-rumped sheathtail bat, Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatusSouthern bent-wing bat, Miniopterus schreibersii bassaniiThirty-four mammals, thirty-eight birds, eleven reptiles, eighteen frogs, sixteen fishes and eleven other species are listed as endangered.
Desert sand-skipper, aestiva skipper, Croitana aestivaCentral North burrowing crayfish, Engaeus granulatusTasmanian giant freshwater crayfish, Astacopsis gouldiFurneaux burrowing crayfish, Engaeus martigenerScottsdale burrowing crayfish, Engaeus spinicaudatusGove crow butterfly, Euploea alcathoe enastriBroad-toothed stag beetle, Wielangta stag beetle, Lissotes latidensFreshwater snail, Beddomeia capensisLand snail Mesodontrachia fitzroyanaLord Howe placostylus, Lord Howe flax snail, Placostylus bivaricosusLand snail Semotrachia euzygaLand snail Sinumelon bednalliMoth Phyllodes imperialis (southern subspecies)Spotted handfish, spotted-hand fish, Brachionichthys hirsutusElizabeth Springs goby, Chlamydogobius micropterusGolden galaxias, Galaxias auratusSwan galaxias, Galaxias fontanusBarred galaxias, Galaxias fuscusClarence galaxias, Galaxias johnstoniNorthern river shark, New Guinea river shark, Glyphis garrickiClarence River cod, eastern freshwater cod, Maccullochella ikeiTrout cod, Maccullochella macquariensisMary River cod, Maccullochella peelii mariensisMacquarie perch, Macquaria australasicaLake Eacham rainbowfish, Melanotaenia eachamensisOxleyan pygmy perch, Nannoperca oxleyanaArthurs paragalaxias, Paragalaxias mesotesMaugean skate, Port Davey skate, Zearaja maugeanaRedfin blue-eye, Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnisWhite-bellied frog, creek frog, Geocrinia albaYellow-spotted tree frog, yellow-spotted bell frog, Litoria castaneaArmoured mistfrog, Litoria loricaWaterfall frog, torrent tree frog, Litoria nannotisMountain mistfrog, Litoria nyakalensisSpotted tree frog, Litoria spenceriFleay's frog, Mixophyes fleayiSouthern barred frog, giant barred frog, Mixophyes iteratusLace-eyed tree frog, Australian lace-lid, Nyctimystes dayiBaw Baw frog, Philoria frostiSouthern corroboree frog, Pseudophryne corroboreeSunset frog, Spicospina flammocaeruleaEungella day frog, Taudactylus eungellensisTinkling frog, Taudactylus rheophilusBooroolong frog, Litoria booroolongensisLoggerhead turtle, Caretta carettaYellow-snouted ground gecko, Diplodactylus occultusArhem land egernia, Egernia obiriSlater's skink, floodplain skink, Egernia slateri slateriWestern spiny-tailed skink, Egernia stokesii badiaGulf snapping turtle, Elusor lavarackorumMary River tortoise, Elusor macrurusBlue Mountains water skink, Eulamprus leuraensisCorangamite water skink, Eulamprus tympanum marnieaePacific ridley, olive ridley, Lepidochelys olivaceaAllan's lerista, retro slider, Lerista allanaePygmy blue-tongue lizard, Adelaide blue-tongue lizard, Tiliqua adelaidensisGrassland earless dragon, Tympanocryptis lineata pinguicollaBrown thornbill (King Island subspecies), Acanthiza pusilla archibaldiChristmas Island goshawk, Accipiter fasciatus natalisWedge-tailed eagle (Tasmanian subspecies), Aquila audax fleayiRed-tailed black-cockatoo (south-eastern subspecies), Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyneGlossy black-cockatoo (South Australian and Kangaroo Island subspecies), Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinusCarnaby's black cockatoo, short-billed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus latirostrisSouthern cassowary (Australian subspecies), Casuarius casuarius johnsoniiCommon emerald dove (Christmas Island subspecies), Chalcophaps indica natalisNorfolk Island green parrot (formerly the Norfolk Island subspecies of the red-fronted parakeet), Cyanoramphus cookiiCoxen's fig parrot, Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeniEastern bristlebird, Dasyornis brachypterusAmsterdam albatross, Diomedea amsterdamensisTristan albatross, Diomedea dabbenenaNorthern royal albatross, Diomedea sanfordiGouldian finch, Erythrura gouldiaeBuff-banded rail (Cocos (Keeling) Islands subspecies), Gallirallus philippensis andrewsiChestnut-rumped heathwren (Mt Lofty Ranges subspecies), Hylacola pyrrhopygia parkeriSwift parrot, Lathamus discolorHelmeted honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops cassidixSouthern giant-petrel, Macronectes giganteusBlack-eared miner, Manorina melanotisHooded robin (Tiwi Islands subspecies), Melanodryas cucullata melvillensisStar finch (eastern and southern subspecies), Neochmia ruficauda ruficaudaNorfolk Island boobook, Ninox novaeseelandiae undulataForty-spotted pardalote, Pardalotus quadragintusNight parrot, Pezoporus occidentalisWestern ground parrot, Pezoporus flaviventrisBlack-throated finch (southern subspecies), Poephila cincta cinctaGolden-shouldered parrot, Psephotus chrysopterygiusWestern whipbird (western heath subspecies), Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularisGould's petrel (nominate subspecies), Pterodroma leucoptera leucopteraAntarctic tern (New Zealand subspecies), Sterna vittata bethuneiSouthern emu-wren (Fleurieu Peninsula and Mount Lofty subspecies), Stipiturus malachurus intermediusAbbott's booby, Sula abbottiChatham albatross, Thalassarche eremitaChristmas thrush, Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurusBuff-breasted button-quail, Turnix oliviiMasked owl (Tiwi Islands subspecies), Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensisRegent honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygiaBlue whale, Balaenoptera musculusJulia Creek dunnart, Sminthopsis douglasiNorthern bettong, Bettongia tropicaMountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvusChristmas Island shrew, Crocidura attenuata trichuraAmpurta, Dasycercus hillieriNorthern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatusTiger quoll (north Queensland subspecies), Dasyurus maculatus gracilisTiger quoll (southeastern mainland population), Dasyurus maculatus maculatusSouthern right whale, Eubalaena australisLeadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateriSemon's leaf-nosed bat, greater wart-nosed horseshoe-bat, Hipposideros semoniSouthern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus obesulusRufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus unnamed subspecies (central mainland form)Bramble Cay melomys, Melomys rubicolaNorthern marsupial mole, Notoryctes caurinusSouthern marsupial mole, Notoryctes typhlopsBridled nail-tail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenataDibbler, Parantechinus apicalisWestern barred bandicoot (Shark Bay subspecies), Perameles bougainville bougainvilleEastern barred bandicoot, Perameles gunnii unnamed subspecies, mainlandMahogany glider, Petaurus gracilisProserpine rock-wallaby, Petrogale persephoneRed-tailed phascogale, Phascogale caluraLong-footed potoroo, Potorous longipesSpotted cuscus, Spilocuscus maculatusSmoky mouse, Pseudomys fumeusHastings River mouse, Pseudomys oralisGreater large-eared horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus philippinensis (large form)Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisiiKangaroo Island dunnart, Sminthopsis aitkeniJulia Creek dunnart, Sminthopsis douglasiSandhill dunnart, Sminthopsis psammophilaCarpentarian rock rat, Zyzomys palatalisCentral rock rat, Zyzomys pedunculatusNorthern hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus krefftiiDraculoides bramstokeriMount Arthur burrowing crayfish, Engaeus orramakunnaBurnie burrowing crayfish, Engaeus yabbimunnaLasionectes exleyi, a cave-dwelling remipede crustaceanGiant Gippsland earthworm, Megascolides australisBathurst copper, purple copper, Paralucia spiniferaRed handfish, Brachionichthys politusGrey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus (west coast population)Great white shark, Carcharodon carchariasEdgbaston goby, Chlamydogobius squamigenusMurray hardyhead, Craterocephalus fluviatilisSwamp galaxias, Galaxias parvusSaddled galaxias, Galaxias tanycephalusEastern dwarf galaxias, dwarf galaxias, Galaxiella pusillaMurray cod, cod, goodoo, Maccullochella peeliiBlind gudgeon, Milyeringa veritasFlinders Ranges gudgeon, Mogurnda clivicolaBalston's pygmy perch, Nannatherina balstoniYarra pygmy perch, Nannoperca obscuraEwens pygmy perch, golden pygmy perch, variegated pygmy perch, Nannoperca variegataAustralian lungfish, Queensland lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteriBlind cave eel, Ophisternon candidumShannon paragalaxias, Paragalaxias dissimilisGreat Lake paragalaxias, Paragalaxias eleotroidesDwarf sawfish, Queensland sawfish, Pristis clavataFreshwater sawfish, largetooth sawfish, Pristis microdonGreen sawfish, dindagubba, narrowsnout sawfish, Pristis zijsronAustralian grayling, Prototroctes maraenaHoney blue-eye, Pseudomugil mellisWhale shark, Rhincodon typusWaterfall Bay handfish, Sympterichthys species [CSIRO #T1996.01]Ziebell's handfish Sympterichthys species [CSIRO #T6.01]Orange-bellied frog, Geocrinia vitellinaGiant burrowing frog, Heleioporus australiacusGreen and golden bell frog, Litoria aureaLittlejohn's tree frog, heath frog, Litoria littlejohniWallum sedge frog, Litoria olongburensisPeppered tree frog, Litoria piperataSouthern bell frog, growling grass frog, warty bell frog, Litoria raniformisAlpine tree frog, Verreaux's alpine tree frog, Litoria verreauxii alpinaStuttering frog, southern barred frog (in Victoria), Mixophyes balbusMagnificent brood frog, Pseudophryne covacevichaeNorthern corroboree frog, Pseudophryne pengilleyiKroombit tinker frog, Pleione's torrent frog, Taudactylus pleioneBlue Mountains tree frog, Litoria citropaFive-clawed worm-skink, long-legged worm-skink, Anomalopus mackayiPink-tailed worm-lizard, Aprasia parapulchellaFlinders Ranges worm-lizard, Aprasia pseudopulchellaHermite Island worm-lizard, Aprasia rostrata rostrataGreen turtle, Chelonia mydasLord Howe Island gecko, Christinus guentheriThree-toed snake-tooth skink, Coeranoscincus reticulatusYinnietharra rock dragon, Ctenophorus yinnietharraAirlie Island ctenotus, Ctenotus angusticepsLancelin Island skink, Ctenotus lanceliniHamelin ctenotus, Ctenotus zastictusStriped legless lizard, Delma imparStriped-tailed delma, Delma labialisAtherton delma, legless lizard, Delma mitellaCollared delma, Delma torquataOrnamental snake, Denisonia maculataGreat desert skink, tjakura, warrarna, mulyamiji, Egernia kintoreiYakka skink, Egernia rugosaBaudin Island spiny-tailed skink, Egernia stokesii aethiopsBell's turtle, Namoi River turtle, Bell's saw-shelled turtle, Elseya belliBellinger River emydura, Emydura macquarii signataHawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricataDunmall's snake, Furina dunmalliBroad-headed snake, Hoplocephalus bungaroidesChristmas Island gecko, Lister's gecko, Lepidodactylus listeriMount Cooper striped lerista, Lerista vittataPilbara olive python, Liasis olivaceus barroniFlatback turtle, Natator depressusPernatty knob-tail, Nephrurus deleaniPedra Branca skink, red-throated skink, Niveoscincus palfreymaniKrefft's tiger snake (Flinders Ranges), Notechis ater aterBronzeback snake-lizard, Ophidiocephalus taeniatusBrigalow scaly-foot, Paradelma orientalisLord Howe Island skink, Pseudemoia lichenigeraChristmas Island blind snake, Ramphotyphlops exocoetiFitzroy tortoise, Rheodytes leukopsBorder thick-tailed gecko, Underwoodisaurus sphyrurusSlender-billed thornbill (western subspecies), Acanthiza iredalei iredaleiGrey grasswren (Bulloo River subspecies), Amytornis barbatus barbatusThick-billed grasswren (eastern subspecies), Amytornis textilis modestusThick-billed grasswren (Gawler Ranges subspecies), Amytornis textilis myallLesser noddy (Australian subspecies), Anous tenuirostris melanopsNoisy scrub-bird, Atrichornis clamosusMuir's corella, Cacatua pastinator pastinatorBaudin's black-cockatoo, long-billed black-cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudiniiCape Barren goose (south-western subspecies), Recherche Cape Barren goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae griseaWestern bristlebird, Dasyornis longirostrisAntipodean albatross, Diomedea antipodensisSouthern royal albatross, Diomedea epomophoraWandering albatross, Diomedea exulansGibson's albatross, Diomedea gibsoniRed goshawk, Erythrotriorchis radiatusCrested shrike-tit (northern subspecies), northern shrike-tit, Falcunculus frontatus whiteiChristmas Island frigatebird, Andrew's frigatebird, Fregata andrewsiWhite-bellied storm-petrel (Tasman Sea or Australasian subspecies), Fregetta grallaria grallariaSquatter pigeon (southern subspecies), Geophaps scripta scriptaPartridge pigeon (western subspecies), Geophaps smithii blaauwiPartridge pigeon (eastern subspecies), Geophaps smithii smithiiBlue petrel, Halobaena caeruleaMalleefowl, Leipoa ocellataNorthern giant-petrel, Macronectes halliPurple-crowned fairy-wren, (western subspecies), Malurus coronatus coronatusWhite-winged fairywren (Barrow Island subspecies), Barrow Island black-and-white fairywren, Malurus leucopterus edouardiWhite-winged fairy-wren (Dirk Hartog Island subspecies), Dirk Hartog black-and-white fairy-wren, Malurus leucopterus leucopterusCrimson finch (white-bellied subspecies), Neochmia phaeton evangelinaeChristmas Island hawk-owl, Ninox natalisGolden whistler (Norfolk Island subspecies), Pachycephala pectoralis xanthoproctaRed-lored whistler, Pachycephala rufogularisFairy prion (southern subspecies), Pachyptila turtur subantarcticaPlains-wanderer, Pedionomus torquatusScarlet robin (Norfolk Island subspecies), Petroica multicolor multicolorHeard shag, Phalacrocorax nivalisMacquarie shag, Phalacrocorax purpurascensSooty albatross, Phoebetria fuscaPrincess parrot, Alexandra's parrot, Polytelis alexandraeRegent parrot (eastern subspecies), Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoidesSuperb parrot, Polytelis swainsoniiWestern whipbird (eastern subspecies), Psophodes nigrogularis leucogasterWestern whipbird (western mallee subspecies), Psophodes nigrogularis oberonSoft-plumaged petrel, Pterodroma mollisKermadec petrel (western subspecies), Pterodroma neglecta neglectaAustralian painted snipe, Rostratula australisAntarctic tern (Indian Ocean subspecies), Sterna vittata vittataSouthern emu-wren (Eyre Peninsula subsepcies), Stipiturus malachurus parimedaMallee emu-wren, Stipiturus malleeLord Howe Island currawong, pied currawong (Lord Howe Island subspecies), Strepera graculina crissalisBuller's albatross, Thalassarche bulleriIndian yellow-nosed albatross, Thalassarche carteriShy albatross, Thalassarche cautaGrey-headed albatross, Thalassarche chrysostomaCampbell albatross, Thalassarche impavidaBlack-browed albatross, Thalassarche melanophrisPacific albatross, Thalassarche nov. sp.Salvin's albatross, Thalassarche salviniWhite-capped albatross, Thalassarche steadiLord Howe woodhen, Tricholimnas sylvestrisBlack-breasted button-quail, Turnix melanogasterAbrolhos painted buttonquail, Turnix varius scintillansMasked owl (northern subspecies), Tyto novaehollandiae kimberliSub-antarctic fur-seal, Arctocephalus tropicalisSei whale, Balaenoptera borealisFin whale, Balaenoptera physalusBoodie, burrowing bettong (Shark Bay subspecies), Bettongia lesueur lesueurBoodie, burrowing bettong (Barrow and Boodie Islands subspecies), Bettongia lesueur unnamed subspeciesDingo, Canis dingoLarge-eared pied bat, large pied bat, Chalinolobus dwyeriKowari, Dasycercus byrneiMulgara, Dasycercus cristicaudaChuditch, western quoll, Dasyurus geoffroiiSpot-tailed quoll, spotted-tail quoll, tiger quoll (Tasmanian population), Dasyurus maculatus maculatusGolden bandicoot (mainland subspecies), Isoodon auratus auratusGolden bandicoot (Barrow Island subspecies), Isoodon auratus barrowensisSouthern brown bandicoot (Nuyts Archipelago subspecies), Isoodon obesulus nauticusSpectacled hare-wallaby (Barrow Island subspecies), Lagorchestes conspicillatus conspicillatusRufous hare-wallaby (Bernier Island subspecies), Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieriRufous hare-wallaby (Dorre Island subspecies), Lagorchestes hirsutus dorreaeBanded hare-wallaby, marnine, munning, Lagostrophus fasciatus fasciatusGreater stick-nest rat, wopilkara, Leporillus conditorBarrow Island euro, Macropus robustus isabellinusGreater bilby, Macrotis lagotisHumpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliaeGolden-backed tree-rat, Mesembriomys macrurusSouthern elephant seal, Mirounga leoninaNumbat, Myrmecobius fasciatusAustralian sea-lion, Neophoca cinereaNorthern hopping-mouse, Notomys aquiloDusky hopping-mouse, wilkiniti, Notomys fuscusCorben's long-eared bat, south-eastern long-eared bat, Nyctophilus corbeniEastern barred bandicoot (Tasmania subspecies), Perameles gunnii gunniiYellow-bellied glider, fluffy glider (Wet Tropics subspecies), Petaurus australis unnamed subspecies.Warru, black-footed rock-wallaby (MacDonnell Ranges race), Petrogale lateralis MacDonnell Ranges raceBlack-footed rock-wallaby (West Kimberley race), Petrogale lateralis West Kimberley raceRecherche rock-wallaby, Petrogale lateralis hackettiBlack-flanked rock-wallaby, Petrogale lateralis lateralisPearson Island rock-wallaby, Petrogale lateralis pearsoniBrush-tailed rock-wallaby, Petrogale penicillataYellow-footed rock-wallaby (South Australia and New South Wales subspecies), Petrogale xanthopus xanthopusLong-nosed potoroo (south-east mainland subspecies), Potorous tridactylus tridactylusCarpentarian antechinus, Pseudantechinus mimulusWestern ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus occidentalisPlains rat, Pseudomys australisDjoongari, Alice Springs mouse, Shark Bay mouse, Pseudomys fieldiPilliga mouse, Pseudomys pilligaensisHeath mouse, dayang, Pseudomys shortridgeiSpectacled flying-fox, Pteropus conspicillatusGrey-headed flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalusPilbara leaf-nosed bat, Rhinonicteris aurantius (Pilbara form)Quokka, Setonix brachyurusButler's dunnart, Sminthopsis butleriBoullanger Island dunnart, Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensisCommon wombat (Bass Strait subspecies), Vombatus ursinus ursinusFalse water rat, water mouse, Xeromys myoidesArnhem rock-rat, Arnhem Land rock-rat, Zyzomys mainiFour fish and one mammal are conservation dependent.
School shark, eastern school shark, snapper shark, tope, soupfin shark, Galeorhinus galeusOrange roughy, deep-sea perch, red roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticusEastern gemfish, Rexea solandri (eastern Australian population)Southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyiiSouthern bent-wing bat, Miniopterus schreibersii bassaniiRefer to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) and Regulations.
Threatened species in Australia are protected (or affected by) by four main types of legislation:
Protected areas legislation (e.g., National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW))Threatened species legislation (e.g. Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (NSW))Native vegetation conservation lawsFisheries legislation
