{accordion}Bandicoots::

||||Bats & flying foxes::

||||Bees::

||||Beetles and bugs::

||||Centipedes and Millipedes::

  • Centipedes Bite causes severe pain which may last for several days. No deaths recorded
  • Pill Millipedes Millipedes are favorite food of funnel-web spiders.

||||Cicadas::

||||Dingoes::

||||Dragons::

  • Tommy Round-head
  • Nobbi Dragon
  • Southern Angle-headed Dragon
  • Eastern Water Dragon
  • Common Bearded Dragon
  • ||||Dragonflies and damselflies::

    ||||Echidnas::

    ||||Fish::

    • Freshwater fish
    • Lungfish
    • Exotic fish

    ||||Geckos::

  • Asian House Gecko
  • Thick-tailed Gecko
  • Robust Velvet Gecko
  • Spotted Velvet Gecko
  • ||||Gliders::

    Sugar gliders

    ||||Goannas::

  • Gould’s Goanna
  • Lace Monitor
  • ||||Harvestmen::

    • Harvestmen

    ||||Koalas::

    • Sighting at the edge of The Grove in Bunya Forest Park in 2010.
    • 15 years ago there were koalas in Ferny Hills over the road from Samford Tavern.

    ||||Lacewings::

    ||||Leeches::

    • Leech Chtonobdella whitmani

    ||||Lizards::

  • Burton’s Snake Lizard
  • ||||Mites and Ticks::

    • Mites
    • Ticks Dangerous paralysing toxin is released by adult female Scrub Ticks after several days feeding.

    ||||Platypus::

    PlatypusWatch report sightings of platypus

    ||||Possums::

    ||||Skinks::

  • Verreaux’s Skink
  • Carlia pectoralis
  • Carlia schmeltzii
  • Lively Skink
  • Ctenotus arcanus
  • Eastern Striped Skink
  • Copper-tailed Skink
  • Wall Skink
  • Pink-tongued Skink
  • Major Skink
  • Land Mullet
  • Tree Skink
  • Narrow-banded Sand-swimmer
  • Broad-banded Sand-swimmer
  • Elf Skink
  • Martin’s Skink
  • Tyron’s SKink
  • Eastern Water Skink
  • Bar-sided Skink
  • Secretive Skink
  • Couper’s Skink
  • Grass Skink
  • Burnett’s Skink
  • Fire-tailed Skink
  • Ophioscincus ophioscincus
  • Saproscincus rosei
  • Blue-tongued Skink
  • ||||Scorpions::

    • Large Brown Scorpion Nocturnal. Sting delivered by tail not known to be dangerous
    • Small Mottled Scorpion Sting not known to be dangerous

    ||||Snails & slugs::

    • Fastosarion virens
    • Nitor pudibunda
    • Sphaerospira mattea
    • Xanthomelon pachystylum
    • Meridolum gilberti
    • Papuexul bidwilli
    • Triboniophorus graeffei
    • Deroceras panormitanum
    • Lehmannia nyctelia
    • Limax maximus
    • Vaginulus plebeius
    • Laevicaulis alte
    • Bradybaena similaris
    • Helix aspersa

    ||||Wallabies::

    ||||Wasps::

    ||||Worms::

    • Shovel-headed garden flatworm Bipalium kewense
    • Blue garden flatworm Caenoplana coerulea
    • Planarians
    • Gordian worms (wireworms horsehair worms) Gordiuss spp. Chordodes spp.
    • Earthworms Oligochaeta Digaster spp. Amynthas spp. Tubifex spp.

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