FLora and Fauna
Many different animals and plants have evolved to the Great Artesian Basin's natural spring systems. These organisms are unique to Australia and the Great Artesian Basin and depend on it for their survival.
flora
Herbs
-Thornless blue devil Eryngium fontanum
- Salt pipewort or button grass Eriocaulon carsonii
- Water or artesian milfoil Myriophyllum artesium
- Hydrocotyle dipleura
- Peplidium sp.
Grasses
- Spring grass or spring dropseed
- Sporobolus pamelae
- Springs lovegrass Eragrostis fenshamii
- Hairy-joint grass Arthraxon hispidus
- Fimbristylis sp.
- Fimbristylis blakei
Tree/shrub
– Calophyllum bicolour
Ferns and tree-like ferns
– Thelypteris confluens
– Cyathea exilis
– Cyathea feline
-Thornless blue devil Eryngium fontanum
- Salt pipewort or button grass Eriocaulon carsonii
- Water or artesian milfoil Myriophyllum artesium
- Hydrocotyle dipleura
- Peplidium sp.
Grasses
- Spring grass or spring dropseed
- Sporobolus pamelae
- Springs lovegrass Eragrostis fenshamii
- Hairy-joint grass Arthraxon hispidus
- Fimbristylis sp.
- Fimbristylis blakei
Tree/shrub
– Calophyllum bicolour
Ferns and tree-like ferns
– Thelypteris confluens
– Cyathea exilis
– Cyathea feline
- Thornless blue devil Eryngium fontanum
- Hairy-joint grass Arthraxon hispidus
- Calophyllum bicolour
- Thelypteris confluens
fauna
Birds
-Yellow chat (gulf subspecies) Epthianura crocea crocea
Fish
- Edgbaston goby Chlamydogobius squamigenus
- Elizabeth Springs goby C. micropterus
- Red-finned blue-eye Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis
Snails
- 18 species of freshwater snail (from the hydrobiid, bithyniid and planorbid families) such as Jardinella isolata
Crustaceans
- Freshwater shrimp Caridinia thermophila
- Two species of freshwater isopod — Ponderella bundoona; P. ecomanufactia
-Yellow chat (gulf subspecies) Epthianura crocea crocea
Fish
- Edgbaston goby Chlamydogobius squamigenus
- Elizabeth Springs goby C. micropterus
- Red-finned blue-eye Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis
Snails
- 18 species of freshwater snail (from the hydrobiid, bithyniid and planorbid families) such as Jardinella isolata
Crustaceans
- Freshwater shrimp Caridinia thermophila
- Two species of freshwater isopod — Ponderella bundoona; P. ecomanufactia
- Yellow chat (gulf subspecies) Epthianura crocea crocea
- Red-finned blue-eye Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis
- Freshwater Snail
- Freshwater shrimp Caridinia thermophila