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Sydney has or used to have 29 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Whitelegge's Land Snail.
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.
Whitelegge's Land Snail
Pseudocharopa whiteleggei
Status: Critically 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
Pseudocharopa whiteleggei is found across 1 electorates.
Whitelegge's Land Snail has a loosely coiled shell of few whorls which is 13 to 16 mm in diameter and 6 mm in height. The shell is relatively flat with a depressed spire and a unicolour appearance of dark red-brown.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Climate change and severe weather
Invasive species and diseases
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
- Sunshine Wattle (Acacia terminalis subsp. terminalis MS)
- Phillip Island Wheat Grass (Anthosachne kingiana subsp. kingiana)
- Thick-lipped Spider-orchid (Caladenia tessellata)
- Calystegia affinis (Calystegia affinis)
- Leafless Tongue-orchid (Cryptostylis hunteriana)
- Camfield's Stringybark (Eucalyptus camfieldii)
- Geniostoma huttonii (Geniostoma huttonii)
- Yellow Gnat-orchid (Genoplesium baueri)
- Little Mountain Palm (Lepidorrhachis mooreana)
- Hairy Geebung (Persoonia hirsuta)
- Rock Shield Fern (Polystichum moorei)
- Sydney Plains Greenhood (Pterostylis saxicola)
- Scrub Turpentine (Rhodamnia rubescens)
- Magenta Lilly Pilly (Syzygium paniculatum)
- Xylosma parvifolia (Xylosma parvifolia)
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