Changes made to wildlife categories on 12 November 2021

The Species Technical Committee (STC) has assessed the status of 15 fauna species and 7 flora species in accordance with the requirements of the Nature Conservation Act 1992 as well as best practice international species reclassification guidelines (see tables below).

Reclassification of 15 fauna species (Schedule 1 - Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020)

Class	Taxon	Common name	Former Qld status	New Qld status
Amphibia	Cophixalus aenigma	tapping nursery frog	Near threatened	Endangered
	Taudactylus rheophilus	northern tinkerfrog	Endangered	Critically endangered
Aves	Probosciger aterrimus macgillivrayi Note – formerly known as Probosciger aterrimus (palm cockatoo).	southern palm cockatoo	Vulnerable	Endangered
Mammalia	Conilurus capricornensis	Capricorn rabbit-rat	Least concern	Extinct
	Megaptera novaeangliae	humpback whale	Vulnerable	Least concern
	Petauroides minor	northern greater glider	Not listed	Vulnerable
	Petauroides volans (southern and central populations) Note – formerly known as Petauroides volans (greater glider).	greater glider (southern and central populations)	Vulnerable	Endangered
	Petaurus australis australis Note – distinct from Petaurus australis unnamed subsp. (yellow-bellied glider (northern subspecies)), which is currently listed as ‘Endangered’.	yellow-bellied glider (south-eastern species)	Not listed	Vulnerable
	Pseudomys glaucus	blue-grey mouse	Least concern	Extinct
	Pteropus brunneus	Percy Island flying-fox	Extinct in the wild	Extinct
Reptilia	Emydura subglobosa angkibaanya Note – formerly known as Emydura subglobosa subglobosa.	Jardine River turtle	Vulnerable	Critically endangered
	Oedura lineata	Arcadia velvet gecko	Least concern	Critically endangered
	Orraya occultus	McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko	Vulnerable	Critically endangered
	Phyllurus pinnaclensis	Pinnacles leaf-tailed gecko	Least concern	Critically endangered
	Saltuarius eximius	Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko	Least concern	Critically endangered
Reptilia	Leiopython sp.	white-lipped python	Not listed Currently classified as a ‘Class 2’ animal	International

Reclassification of 7 flora species (Schedule 1 - Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020)

Scientific name	Former QLD status	New QLD status
Albizia sp. (Windsor Tableland B.Gray 2181)	Vulnerable	Least concern
Antrophyum austroqueenslandicum	Critically endangered	Extinct in the wild
Camptacra perdita	Least concern	Endangered
Gossia gonoclada	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Macadamia jansenii	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Rhodamnia dumicola	Critically endangered	Endangered
Solanum hamulosum	Endangered	Vulnerable
Phlegmariurus filiformis Note – P. filiformis is being removed from the regulation. After the careful examination of the single specimen of P. filiformis in the Queensland Herbarium, it was recognised as a different taxa, Phlegmariurus creber, which is already listed as a ‘Critically endangered’ species. P. filiformis is no longer recognised as occurring in Queensland.	Endangered	Delisted

Nomenclature changes (Schedule 1 - Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020)

Current scientific name	QLD status	New scientific name
Marsdenia araujacea	Critically endangered	Leichhardtia araujacea
Acacia ruppii	Vulnerable	Acacia torringtonensis
Cestichis condylobulbon	Vulnerable	Blepharoglossum condylobulbon
Marsdenia brevifolia	Vulnerable	Leichhardtia brevifolia
Marsdenia coronata	Vulnerable	Leichhardtia coronata
Marsdenia longiloba	Vulnerable	Leichhardtia longiloba
Marsdenia paludicola	Vulnerable	Leichhardtia paludicola
Marsdenia pumila	Vulnerable	Leichhardtia pumila
Marsdenia rara	Vulnerable	Leichhardtia rara
Marsdenia straminea	Vulnerable	Gymnema stramineum

Legend and aids to interpretation

Reference	Aid to interpretation
Extinct in the wild (X)	See decision criteria
Endangered (E)	See decision criteria
Critically endangered (CE)	See decision criteria
Vulnerable (V)	See decision criteria
Near threatened (NT)	See decision criteria
Least concern (LC)	See decision criteria