Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

6 – The extent and adequacy of monitoring for Australian threatened reptile species^77

Table 6.1. List of threatened Australian reptile species, and an assessment of their extent and adequacy
of monitoring.

The summed monitoring score is the tally of monitoring scores (on a 0 (no monitoring) to 5 (optimal monitoring) point scale) across the nine monitoring
metrics described in Chapter 2: hence the maximum possible score is 45. For conservation status IUCN is the IUCN Red List (i.e. listing at international
scale) and EPBC Act is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (i.e. formal national listing of Australian threatened species).
Empty cells in conservation status indicate no given status. Conservation status: CR Critically Endangered; EN Endangered; VU Vulnerable. Note non-
threatened statuses are not given for IUCN column.

Species Common name

Conservation status Summed

monitoring

EPBC Act IUCN score

Caretta caretta Loggerhead turtle EN VU 37

Chelonia mydas Green turtle VU EN 37

Eretmochelys imbricata Hawksbill turtle VU CR 37

Lepidochelys olivacea Olive ridley turtle EN VU 37

Natator depressus Flatback turtle VU 37

Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback turtle EN VU 9

Carettochelys insculpta Pig-nosed turtle VU 30

Elseya albagula Southern snapping turtle,

white-throated snapping turtle

CR 37

Elseya lavarackorum Gulf snapping turtle EN 11

Elusor macrurus Mary River turtle, Mary River

tortoise

EN EN 24

Pseudemydura umbrina Western swamp tortoise CR CR 42

Rheodytes leukops Fitzroy River turtle VU VU 19

Wollumbinia belli Bell’s turtle, western

sawshelled turtle, Namoi River

turtle

VU EN 33

Nephrurus deleani Pernatty knob-tailed gecko EN 0

Phyllurus gulbaru Gulbaru gecko CR CR 0

Uvidicolus sphyrurus Border thick-tailed gecko,

granite belt thick-tailed gecko

VU 0

Lucasium occultum Yellow-snouted gecko,

yellow-snouted ground gecko

EN 23

Christinus guentheri Lord Howe Island gecko, Lord

Howe Island southern gecko

VU VU 29

Cyrtodactylus sadleiri Christmas Island giant gecko EN 28

Lepidodactylus listeri Lister’s gecko CR VU 41*

Aprasia aurita Eared worm-lizard, mallee

worm-lizard

CR 0

Aprasia parapulchella Pink-tailed worm-lizard,

pink-tailed legless lizard

VU 15

Aprasia pseudopulchella Flinders Ranges worm-lizard VU 0