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Groom has or used to have 29 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Long-nosed Potoroo.
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.
Long-nosed Potoroo
Potorous tridactylus tridactylus
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
Potorous tridactylus tridactylus is found across 33 electorates.
The Long-nosed Potoroo is a medium sized marsupial of the order Diprotodontia. There is considerable variation between sizes in males and females. Males and females have a body length between 287–410 mm and 259–378 mm respectively. Tail lengths range between 204–262 mm and 198–254 mm with males being typically heavier than females. The Long-nosed Potoroo can be identified by a brown to grey upper body and paler underbody. They have a long nose that tapers with a small patch of skin extending from the snout to the nose. The length of the feet is shorter than their head length. They are smaller than the Long-footed Potoroo.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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- 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)
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