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Name	Summary	Subject categories
Fraser's Banded Snail	Fraser's Banded Snail is a native snail species that is quite large, its shell reaching a diameter of up to 56 mm. The shell ranges from a tawny yellow to dark brown base-colour with many black spiral bands and a dark area behind the outer lip. It occurs from around the Clarence River region in northern New South Wales northwards to about Gympie in south-eastern Queensland.	Molluscs Gastropods Land snails
Pale Banded Snail	The Pale Banded Snail has, as the common name suggests, a pale, yellowish shell with many strong, dark brown spiral bands. It also has a dark brown patch behind the outer lip and on the umbilical region on the base of the shell. It ranges from about the Tweed river region in northern New South Wales northwards to the Broadsound Range, north-west of Rockhampton, and inland to the Carnarvon area, Queensland.	Molluscs Gastropods Land snails
Pygmy Wisp	The Pygmy Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits ponds, swamps and fringes of dams and lakes with plentiful aquatic vegetation. Mature males are dark brown or black with greenish markings and a reddish tip to the abdomen. Young females are mostly red and become black and green as they age.	Insects Damselflies
Red-rumped Wisp	The Red-rumped Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits a variety of standing water habitats, including small, well-vegetated ponds, dams and swamps. It is very similar to the Pgymy Wisp but males have more of the tip of the abdomen reddish. However, only female Red-rumped Wisps are known from south-east Queensland.	Insects Damselflies
Graphic Flutterer	The Graphic Flutterer is an unmistakable, medium-sized dragonfly with a dark body and brownish-orange wings patterned with dark, purplish patches. It breeds in a variety of standing waters and is often found far from water.	Insects Dragonflies
Inland Ringtail	The Inland Ringtail is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits streams, lakes and pools, including muddy temporary pools. Mature adults are dark metallic green or dull bronze with blue markings. The last two segments of the abdomen are blue for males.	Insects Damselflies
Dune Ringtail	The Dune Ringtail is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits coastal, brownwater dune lakes and swamps. Mature adults are dark metallic green or bronze with blue markings. The last three segments of the adomen are dark-coloured for males.	Insects Damselflies
Giant Panda Snail	The Giant Panda Snail is Australia's largest land snail, the shell of which may reach 90 mm in height. This species is often encountered in the rainforests around Brisbane, particularly at night after rain when they are out feeding on fungi. Giant Panda Snails occur as far south as Barrington Tops in NSW.	Molluscs Gastropods Land snails
Needles and whitetips	The Synlestidae are large, dark-coloured damselflies with pale markings and long abdomens. They breed in streams in rivers.	Insects Damselflies
Wandering Ringtail	The Wandering Ringtail is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits a range of standing and slow-flowing waters, including temporary ponds. Mature adults are dull bronze with blue markings. The last segment of the abdomen is blue for males.	Insects Damselflies
Forest Needle	The Forest Needle is a very large, metallic green damselfly with yellow markings. It inhabits creeks and streams in wetter forest, particularly rainforest.	Insects Damselflies
Yellow-striped Flutterer	The Yellow-striped Flutterer is a medium-sized dragonfly with a dark body and patterned wings. The base of each hindwing has two black patches separated by a cream or yellowish band. It inhabits a range of standing waters, including lakes, ponds and lagoons.	Insects Dragonflies
Red Swampdragon	The Red Swampdragon is a medium-sized dragonfly that inhabits swamps, and shaded dams and pools along streams and watercourses. Mature males have yellow thorax with dark markings and a thin red abdomen with a black tip.	Insects Dragonflies
Striped Marshfrog	The Striped Marshfrog is light brown to grey-brown and marked with bold, dark longitudinal stripes. It is widespread in coastal eastern Australia and also occurs in Tasmania.	Frogs
Slender Skimmer	The Slender Skimmer is a medium-sized, greenish yellow to green and black dragonfly that inhabits a wide range of standing and slow-flowing waters. It is very similar to the Green Skimmer.	Insects Dragonflies
Forest Darner	The Forest Darner is a large, brown to dark brown dragonfly with pale stripes and spots. It inhabits streams and rivers running through rainforest and other wet forests.	Insects Dragonflies
Common Glider	The Common Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that inhabits a wide range of standing waters, including temporary ponds. Adults have a brownish thorax with darker stripes on the sides and a tan to reddish abdomen. The base of each hindwing has a dark red to black patch.	Insects Dragonflies
Red-tipped Shadefly	The Red-tipped Shadefly is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits dams, ponds, riverine lagoons and the edges of streams and rivers. Adults are very variable in appearance depending on their age, but mature males are black and green with a reddish tip to the abdomen.	Insects Damselflies
Australian Emerald	The Australian Emerald is a medium-sized, dark metallic green dragonfly with yellowish markings. It inhabits a wide range of flowing and standing waters in a variety of habitats.	Insects Dragonflies
Fiery Skimmer	The Fiery Skimmer is a medium-sized dragonfly that inhabits a wide range of standing and flowing waters, including lakes, ponds, swamps, streams and seepages. The young adults are yellow-orange but mature males develop a solid-red abdomen and dark-brown thorax.	Insects Dragonflies

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