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Grey has or used to have 43 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Sandhill Dunnart.
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.
Sandhill Dunnart
Sminthopsis psammophila
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
Sminthopsis psammophila is found across 2 electorates.
The sandhill dunnart occurs in isolated sandy arid and semi arid areas in the Great Victoria Desert and the Eyre Peninsula. It occurs in vegetation dominated by hummock grassland. The species shelters during the day in nests in the centre of large hummocks, especially in hummocks that have started to die off in the centre, where the dig a circular depression. Females also dig 90 cm long burrows that end in a small chamber with nesting material. Males use a more diverse array of nest sites, including small burrows between spinifex clumps, hollow logs and existing burrows of Mitchell's hopping-mouse.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Adverse fire regimes
Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation
Invasive species and diseases
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
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- Needle Wattle (Acacia carneorum)
- Chalky Wattle (Acacia cretacea)
- Jumping-jack Wattle (Acacia enterocarpa)
- Hairy-pod Wattle (Acacia glandulicarpa)
- Latz's Wattle (Acacia latzii)
- Menzel's Wattle (Acacia menzelii)
- Waddy (Acacia peuce)
- Birds Nest Wattle (Acacia pickardii)
- Fat-leaved Wattle (Acacia pinguifolia)
- Senna Wattle (Acacia praemorsa)
- Neat Wattle (Acacia rhetinocarpa)
- Spiller's Wattle (Acacia spilleriana)
- Whibley Wattle (Acacia whibleyana)
- Spiny Everlasting (Acanthocladium dockeri)
- Sword Bossiaea (Bossiaea peninsularis)
- Corunna Daisy (Brachyscome muelleri)
- White-beauty Spider-orchid (Caladenia argocalla)
- Winter Spider-orchid (Caladenia brumalis)
- Coast Spider-orchid (Caladenia conferta)
- Bayonet Spider-orchid (Caladenia gladiolata)
- Ghost Spider-orchid (Caladenia intuta)
- Large-club Spider-orchid (Caladenia macroclavia)
- Greencomb Spider-orchid (Caladenia tensa)
- Woolcock's Spider-orchid (Caladenia woolcockiorum)
- White Rabbits (Caladenia xantholeuca)
- Slender Bell-fruit (Codonocarpus pyramidalis)
- Trailing Hop-bush (Dodonaea procumbens)
- Peep Hill Hop-bush (Dodonaea subglandulifera)
- Dwarf Desert Spike-rush (Eleocharis papillosa)
- Salt Pipewort (Eriocaulon carsonii)
- Osborn's Eyebright (Euphrasia collina subsp. osbornii)
- Frankenia plicata (Frankenia plicata)
- Mt Finke Grevillea (Grevillea treueriana)
- Prickly Raspwort (Haloragis eyreana)
- Ooldea Guinea-flower (Hibbertia crispula)
- Spalding Blown Grass (Lachnagrostis limitanea)
- Granite Mudwort (Limosella granitica)
- Microlepidium alatum (Microlepidium alatum)
- Arckaringa Daisy (Olearia arckaringensis)
- Silver Daisy-bush (Olearia pannosa subsp. pannosa)
- Silver Candles (Pleuropappus phyllocalymmeus)
- Goldsack's Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum goldsackii)
- Lax Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum laxum)
- Pale Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum pallidum)
- Plum Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum pruinosum)
- Sturdy Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum validum)
- West Coast Mintbush (Prostanthera calycina)
- Mount Illbilie Mintbush (Prostanthera nudula)
- Lowly Greenhood (Pterostylis despectans)
- Halbury Greenhood (Pterostylis lepida)
- Nodding Rufoushood (Pterostylis mirabilis)
- Hale Dwarf Greenhood (Pterostylis sp. Hale )
- Desert Greenhood (Pterostylis xerophila)
- Ironstone Mulla Mulla (Ptilotus beckerianus)
- Tufted Bush-pea (Pultenaea trichophylla)
- Sclerolaena walkeri (Sclerolaena walkeri)
- Large-fruit Fireweed (Senecio macrocarpus)
- Superb Groundsel (Senecio megaglossus)
- Menindee Nightshade (Solanum karsense)
- Annual Stackhousia (Stackhousia annua)
- Slender Darling-pea (Swainsona murrayana)
- Yellow Swainson-pea (Swainsona pyrophila)
- Bead Glasswort (Tecticornia flabelliformis)
- Metallic Sun-orchid (Thelymitra epipactoides)
- Port Lincoln Speedwell (Veronica parnkalliana)
- Xerothamnella parvifolia (Xerothamnella parvifolia)
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