Lagorchestes
Lagorchestes[2] Temporal range: Recent[1]
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Eastern hare-wallaby | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Macropodidae |
Subfamily: | Macropodinae |
Genus: | Lagorchestes Gould, 1841 |
Type species | |
Macropus leporides Gould, 1841
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Species | |
Lagorchestes is a genus containing all but one of the species referred to as hare-wallabies. It has four species, two of which are extinct:
- †Lake Mackay hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus (extinct)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus
- Rufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus
- †Eastern hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes leporides (extinct)
The oldest known fossil of Lagorchestes is an 11,000-year-old one of the extant spectacled hare-wallaby.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b The Paleobiology Database
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 62–63. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
Categories:
- Macropods
- Marsupials of Australia
- Marsupial genera
- Taxa named by John Gould
- Diprotodont stubs