Commonwealth of Australia
 
Inclusion of species in the list of threatened species under section 178 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (80)
 
 
I, PETER ROBERT GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, pursuant to section 184(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby amend the list referred to in section 178 of that Act by:
 
deleting from the list in the endangered category:
·        Epacris sp. Graniticola (A.Moscal 4210) R.Crowden
·        Spyridium microphyllum
 
including in the list in the critically endangered category:
·        Epacris graniticola
·        Marginaster littoralis
 
including in the list in the endangered category:
·        Spyridium lawrencei
·        Tasmanipatus anophthalmus
 
including in the list in the vulnerable category:
·        Patiriella vivipara
 
including in the list in the extinct category:
·        Hypolimnus pedderensis
 
 
 
 
Dated 17 day of June 2009
 
 
Peter Robert Garrett
 
 
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts