Threatened Species List - Vertebrate Animals

The tables below contain lists of all vertebrate animal species (as at January) which are on Tasmania's Threatened Species Protection Act 1995.

The Commonwealth status refers to listings under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. As nominations are being received all the time, the species and or their status may have already changed.

SPRAT - Species Profile and Threats (database)

Status - What these terms mean

Mammals

Species and common name	Listing information	Tasmanian status	Commonwealth status
Antechinus vandycki, Tasman Peninsula dusky antechinus	Dusky antechinus listing statement (PDF 500Kb)	Vulnerable	None
Arctocephalus forsteri long-nosed fur seal (previously known as New Zealand fur seal)	None	Rare	None
Arctocephalus tropicalis subantarctic fur seal	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Endangered	Endangered
Balaenoptera borealis sei whale	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Vulnerable
Balaenoptera musculus blue whale	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Endangered
Balaenoptera physalus fin whale	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Dasyurus maculatus maculatus spotted-tailed quoll	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Spotted-tailed quoll listing statement (PDF 1Mb)	Rare	Vulnerable
Dasyurus viverrinus eastern quoll (mainland)	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Endangered
Eubalaena australis southern right whale	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information Recovery Plan	Endangered	Endangered
Mirounga leonina southern elephant seal	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information Recovery Plan	Endangered	Vulnerable
Perameles gunnii gunnii eastern-barred bandicoot	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Vulnerable
Pseudomys novaehollandiae New Holland mouse	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile New Holland Mouse Listing Statement (PDF 1Mb) National Recovery Plan for the Pookila (New Holland mouse) 2026	Endangered	Vulnerable
Sarcophilus harrisii Tasmanian devil	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Save the Tasmanian Devil Program	Endangered	Endangered
Thylacinus cynocephalus thylacine	Commonwealth SPRAT profile Further Information	Extinct	Extinct

Birds

Species and common name	Listing information	Tasmanian status	Commonwealth status
Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi see Acanthiza pusilla magnirostris	None	Endangered	None
Acanthiza pusilla magnirostris King Island brown thornbill	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information	Endangered	Endangered
Acanthornis magna greeniana King Island scrubtit	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information Recovery Plan	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Accipiter novaehollandiae see Tachyspiza novaehollandiae
Alcedo azurea diemenensis see Ceyx azureus diemenensis	None
Aquila audax fleayi wedge-tailed eagle	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information Recovery Plan Tasmanian Wedge Tailed Eagle Listing Statement (PDF 571Kb)	Endangered	Endangered
Ardenna grisea sooty shearwater	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Arenaria interpres ruddy turnstone	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None (under consideration for listing as vulnerable)	Vulnerable
Botaurus poiciloptilus Australasian bittern	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Endangered
Calidris acuminata sharp-tailed sandpiper	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None (under consideration for listing as vulnerable)	Vulnerable
Calidris canutus red knot	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None (under consideration for listing as vulnerable)	Vulnerable
Calidris ferruginea curlew sandpiper	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Calidris tenuirostris great knot	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Vulnerable
Ceyx azureus diemenensis Tasmanian azure kingfisher	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Tasmanian Azure Kingfisher Listing Statement (PDF 459Kb)	Endangered	Endangered
Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae erythrotis Macquarie Island parakeet	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Extinct	Extinct
Diomedea exulans wandering albatross	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Endangered	Vulnerable
Dromaius minor King Island emu	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Extinct	Extinct
Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis Tasmanian emu	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Extinct	Extinct
Gallinago hardwickii Latham's snipe	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Gallirallus philippensis macquariensis Macquarie Island rail	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Extinct	Extinct
Haliaeetus leucogaster see Icthyophaga leucogaster
Halobaena caerulea blue petrel	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Hirundapus caudacutus white-throated needletail	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None (under consideration for listing as vulnerable)	Vulnerable
Icthyophaga leucogaster (formally Haliaeetus leucogaster) white-bellied sea-eagle	Recovery Plan White-bellied sea-eagle Listing Statement (PDF 604Kb)	Vulnerable	None
Lathamus discolor swift parrot	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information Recovery Plan	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Leucocarbo purpurascens (formally Leucocarbo atriceps purpurascens) Macquarie Island shag	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Limosa lapponica baueri Western Alaskan bar-tailed godwit	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Endangered
Limosa limosa black-tailed godwit	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Endangered
Macronectes giganteus southern giant petrel	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Endangered
Macronectes halli northern giant petrel	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Rare	Vulnerable
Neophema chrysogaster orange-bellied parrot	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan OBP Tasmania Program Orange-bellied Parrot Listing Statement (PDF 438Kb)	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Neophema chrysostoma blue-winged parrot	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Numenius madagascariensis eastern curlew	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Oceanites oceanicus Wilson's storm petrel	None	Rare	None
Pachyptila turtur subantarctica fairy prion southern sub-species	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Vulnerable
Pardalotus quadragintus forty-spotted pardalote	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Forty-spotted Pardalote Listing Statement (PDF 561Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Endangered
Phoebetria fusca sooty albatross	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Rare	Vulnerable
Phoebetria palpebrata light-mantled albatross	Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	None
Platycercus caledonicus brownii King Island green rosella	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile King Island green rosella listing statement (PDF 475Kb) Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Pluvialis squatarola grey plover	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None (under consideration for listing as vulnerable)	Vulnerable
Podiceps cristatus great crested grebe	None	Vulnerable	None
Procellaria cinerea grey petrel	None	Endangered	None
Pterodroma lessonii white-headed petrel	None	Vulnerable	None
Pterodroma mollis soft-plumaged petrel	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Pterodroma mollis listing statement (PDF 557Kb)	Endangered	Vulnerable
Sterna albifrons sinensis see Sternula albifrons placens
Sternula albifrons placens (formally Sternula albifrons sinensis, Little Tern) Tasman Little Tern	None	Endangered	None
Sterna nereis nereis see Sternula nereis nereis	None
Sterna striata white-fronted tern	None	Vulnerable	None
Sterna vittata bethunei Antarctic tern	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile		Endangered
Sternula nereis nereis fairy tern	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Strepera fuliginosa colei King Island black currawong	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Vulnerable
Tachyspiza novaehollandiae formally (Accipiter novaehollandiae) grey goshawk		Endangered	Endangered
Thalassarche cauta shy albatross, Tasmanian shy albatross	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Further Information Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Endangered
Thalassarche chrysostoma grey-headed albatross	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Endangered	Endangered
Thalassarche melanophris black-browed albatross	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Endangered	Vulnerable
Thinornis cucullatus cucullatus hooded plover (Eastern)	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Vulnerable
Thinornis rubricollis rubricollis see Thinornis cucullatus	None
Tringa nebularia common greenshank	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None (under consideration for listing as endangered)	Endangered
Tyto novaehollandiae castanops masked owl	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Vulnerable
Xenus cinereus terek sandpiper	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Vulnerable

Amphibians

Species and common name	Listing information	Tasmanian status	Commonwealth status
Litoria raniformis green and gold frog	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Listing Statement - Green and Golden Frog (PDF 354Kb)	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Limnodynastes peroni striped marsh frog	None	Endangered	None

Species and common name

Listing information

Tasmanian status

Commonwealth status

Litoria raniformis

green and gold frog

Commonwealth SPRAT Profile

Listing Statement - Green and Golden Frog (PDF 354Kb)

Vulnerable

Limnodynastes peroni

striped marsh frog

None

Endangered

None

Reptiles

Species and common name	Listing information	Tasmanian status	Commonwealth status
Caretta caretta loggerhead turtle	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Endangered	Endangered
Carinascincus greeni northern snow skink	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Endangered
Carinascincus microlepidotus southern snow skink	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Endangered
Carinascincus orocryptus Tasmanian mountain skink	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Endangered
Carinascincus palfreymani Pedra Branca skink	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Pedra Branca Skink (PDF 432Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Chelonia mydas green turtle	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Dermochelys coriacea leatherback sea turtle	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Endangered
Eretmochelys imbricata hawksbill turtle	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Niveoscincus palfreymani see Carinascincus palfreymani	None
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri tussock skink	Listing Statement - Tussock skink, Pseudemoia Pagenstecheri 2026 (PDF 778Kb)	Vulnerable	None
Pseudemoia rawlinsoni glossy grass skink	Pseudemoia rawlinsoni listing statement (PDF 539Kb) Commonwealth SPRAT profile	Rare	Vulnerable

Fish

Species and common name	Listing information	Tasmanian status	Commonwealth status
Brachionichthys hirsutus spotted handfish	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Spotted Handfish Listing Statement (PDF 555Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Brachiopsilus dianthus pink handfish	Pink Handfish Listing Statement (PDF 468Kb)	Endangered	None
Brachiopsilus ziebelli ziebell's handfish	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Ziebells Handfish Listing Statement (PDF 483Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Vulnerable
Carcharodon carcharias great white shark	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Galaxias auratus golden galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Rare	Endangered
Galaxias fontanus swan galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Swan galaxias (PDF 420Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Endangered
Galaxias johnstoni clarence galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Clarence Galaxias (PDF 469Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Endangered
Galaxias parvus swamp galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Galaxias pedderensis Pedder galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Galaxias pedderensis Listing Statement (PDF 628Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Extinct In The Wild
Galaxias tanycephalus saddled galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Saddled Galaxias (PDF 415Kb) Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Galaxiella pusilla dwarf galaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Vulnerable ((under consideration for uplisting to endangered)	Endangered
Paragalaxias dissimilis shannon paragalaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Paragalaxias eleotroides Great Lake paragalaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Paragalaxias julianus western paragalaxias	Recovery Plan	Rare	None
Paragalaxias mesotes Arthurs paragalaxias	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Recovery Plan Listing Statement (2026)	Endangered	Endangered
Prototroctes maraena Australian grayling	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Prototroctes Maraena (Australian Grayling) Listing Statement (PDF 621Kb) Recovery Plan	Vulnerable	Vulnerable
Raja sp. L. see Zearaja maugeana	None
Seriolella brama blue warehou	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Conservation Dependant
Sympterichthys unipennis smooth handfish	Smooth Handfish Listing Statement (PDF 375Kb)	Extinct	None
Thunnus maccoyii southern bluefin tuna	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile	None	Conservation Dependant
Thymichthys politus red handfish	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Red Handfish Listing Statement (PDF 412Kb) Recovery Plan	Endangered	Critically Endangered
Zearaja maugeana maugean skate previously Port Davey skate)	Commonwealth SPRAT Profile Maugean skate - Listing Statement (PDF 535Kb)	Endangered	Endangered

Contact

Threatened Species

GPO Box 44,
HOBART, TAS, 7001.

Email: ThreatenedSpecies.Enquiries@nre.tas.gov.au

Threatened Species List - Vertebrate Animals

​Mammals​​

Birds​​​

Amphibian​​​s​​​​​

​Rep​tiles​​

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