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 Border Thick-tailed Gecko.
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.
Border Thick-tailed Gecko
Uvidicolus sphyrurus
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
Uvidicolus sphyrurus is found across 4 electorates.
The Border Thick-tailed Gecko is a pale fawn to brown reptile growing to 7 cm with faint, darker brown flecks, very small white spots scattered over the head, neck, back, sides and limbs and dark grey-brown/black tail with alternate dark and pale cross-bands formed by rows of large tubercles. The tail is fat and rectangular with a thin tapering tip and typically has four pale rings.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
- Hairy-joint Grass (Arthraxon hispidus)
- Bertya opponens (Bertya opponens)
- Satin-top Grass (Bothriochloa bunyensis)
- Miniature Moss-orchid (Bulbophyllum globuliforme)
- Ooline (Cadellia pentastylis)
- Stream Clematis (Clematis fawcettii)
- King Blue-grass (Dichanthium queenslandicum)
- Bluegrass (Dichanthium setosum)
- Grevillea quadricauda (Grevillea quadricauda)
- Tall Velvet Sea-berry (Haloragis exalata subsp. velutina)
- Belson's Panic (Homopholis belsonii)
- Wandering Pepper-cress (Lepidium peregrinum)
- Mt Berryman Phebalium (Phebalium distans)
- Hawkweed (Picris evae)
- Austral Cornflower (Rhaponticum australe)
- Blotched Sarcochilus (Sarcochilus weinthalii)
- Sophora fraseri (Sophora fraseri)
- Austral Toadflax (Thesium australe)
You are in federal electorate Groom.