Threatened Burrowing Crayfish of
West Gippsland
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Warragul Burrowing Crayfish
Do I Have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish On My Property, School Ground or
Local Park?
Take this test to see if you might be lucky enough to have burrowing crayfish
on your property!
The best place to start is by searching for their distinctive chimneys during winter and spring in areas where
Warragul Burrowing Crayfish habitat is more likely to occur.
Below is an easy-to-use checklist to assist the local community and landowners to determine whether their
properties may contain areas suitable for Warragul Burrowing Crayfish.
1.
Is your property located within the known range (click here to view), or close to the boundaries
of the known range, of the Warragul Burrowing Crayfish?
2.
Does your property contain waterways, floodplains or soaks?
3.
Does your property have soils composed of either blue-grey clay, or brown or red clay loams?
4.
Can you find any crayfish chimneys during winter and spring ?
If you have answered YES to Questions 1, 2 and 4 please click below:
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Juvenile Warragul Burrowing Crayfish
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Warragul Burrowing Crayfish
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Question 1
You Answered ‘YES’
Your property may have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish habitat.
Please proceed to question 2.
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Question 2
You Answered ‘YES’
Your property may have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish habitat.
Please proceed to question 3.
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Question 3
You Answered ‘YES’
Your property may have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish habitat.
Please proceed to question 4.
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Question 4
You Answered ‘YES’
Are:
They composed of small, regular spherical balls of soil?
(refer picture at right)
They small and compact around, and less than 8 cm in height?
The chimney entrances small openings of less than 2 cm?
If the answer is ‘YES’ and you also answered ‘YES’ to questions 1 and 2,
you are very likely to be privileged enough to be harbouring
Warragul Burrowing Crayfish!
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Question 4
You Answered ‘YES’ to Questions 1, 2 and 4
You are very likely to be privileged enough to be harbouring
Warragul Burrowing Crayfish!
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Question 1
You Answered ‘NO’
Your property is unlikely to have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish
habitat.
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Question 2
You Answered ‘NO’
Your property is unlikely to have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish
habitat.
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Question 3
You Answered ‘NO’
Your property is unlikely to have Warragul Burrowing Crayfish
habitat.
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Question 4
You Answered ‘NO’
If no, and you have checked several times during the wetter
months of the year, you are less likely to have Warragul
Burrowing Crayfish.
