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Bass has or used to have 24 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Mount Arthur Burrowing Crayfish.
We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.
Mount Arthur Burrowing Crayfish
Engaeus orramakunna
Status: Vulnerable
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories
Engaeus orramakunna is only found within Bass
The Mount Arthur Burrowing Crayfish is a small, fresh water crayfish, often a striking orange colour. Its distribution is centred on Mount Arthur in north-east Tasmania, where it can be found in a variety of habitats. This species prefers moist seeps and flat swampy or marshy land. A large proportion of the Mount Arthur Burrowing Crayfish distribution is in State forest and on private land, with forestry activities and the conversion of habitat to pasture being primary threats.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Adverse fire regimes
Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
- Native Wintercress (Barbarea australis)
- Mt Arthur Boronia (Boronia hemichiton)
- Tailed Spider-orchid (Caladenia caudata)
- Lindley's Spider-orchid (Caladenia lindleyana)
- Robust Fingers (Caladenia tonellii)
- Pygmy Cypress-pine (Callitris oblonga)
- South Esk Pine (Callitris oblonga subsp. oblonga)
- Curtis' Colobanth (Colobanthus curtisiae)
- Variable Smoke-bush (Conospermum hookeri)
- Matted Flax-lily (Dianella amoena)
- South Esk Heath (Epacris exserta)
- Mt Cameron Heath (Epacris graniticola)
- Pretty Heath (Epacris virgata)
- Clover Glycine (Glycine latrobeana)
- Basalt Pepper-cress (Lepidium hyssopifolium)
- Moleskin Dogwood (Pomaderris pilifera subsp. talpicutica)
- Tapered Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum apoxychilum)
- Robust Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum robustum)
- Northern Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum secutum)
- Ben Lomond Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum stellatum)
- Midland Greenhood (Pterostylis commutata)
- Leafy Greenhood (Pterostylis cucullata)
- Grassland Greenhood (Pterostylis ziegeleri)
- Swamp Fireweed (Senecio psilocarpus)
- Creeping Dusty Miller (Spyridium obcordatum)
- Shy Pinkbells (Tetratheca gunnii)
- Sky-blue Sun-orchid (Thelymitra jonesii)
- Sand Grasstree (Xanthorrhoea arenaria)
- Shiny Grasstree (Xanthorrhoea bracteata)
- Swamp Everlasting (Xerochrysum palustre)
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