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Corio has or used to have 19 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Grassland Earless Dragon.

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.

Grassland Earless Dragon

Tympanocryptis pinguicolla

Status: Endangered

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

Tympanocryptis pinguicolla is found across 5 electorates.

The grassland earless dragon is a small, pale grey to reddish-brown agamid lizard which lacks an external ear opening and functional ear drum. See the national recovery plan for a more detailed description.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Adverse fire regimes