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Elected representatives in government are in charge of the policy and funding that can make or break saving threatened species. Their decisions and actions matter.

Groom has or used to have 29 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Five-clawed Worm-skink.

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.

Photo of Five-clawed Worm-skink

Five-clawed Worm-skink

Anomalopus mackayi

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

Anomalopus mackayi is found across 5 electorates.

The Five-clawed Worm-skink, Anomalopus mackayi, is a medium sized species of the Scincidae family. It is a burrowing skink which is characterised by three fingers and two toes and grows up to 27 cm long. It has smooth scales with an overall greyish-brown upper body with longitudinal rows of dark spots. The ventral surface is yellow-green with dark flecking. In the southern region of its range the Five-clawed Worm-skink is unpatterned, while in the north of its range, it has longitudinal rows of dark spots over the dorsal and lateral surfaces.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradationHabitat loss, fragmentation and degradation

Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.

Groom has or used to have 18 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Five-clawed Worm-skink but they're just as important.

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