Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Lagorchestes leporides

Description

Lagorchestes leporides (Gould, 1841). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:93 [1841].

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, interior New South Wales.

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly W New South Wales, E South Australia, NW Victoria.

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct.

COMMENTS: Almost certainly extinct; not recorded for more than a century (Kirsch and Calaby, 1977:22).

Notes

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, pp. 45-62 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353075

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Macropodidae
Genus
Lagorchestes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diprotodontia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gould
Species
leporides
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lagorchestes leporides (Gould, 1841) sec. Groves, 1993

References

  • Kirsch, J. A. W., and J. H. Calaby. 1977. The species of living marsupials: An annotated list. Pp. 9 - 26, in The biology of marsupials (B. Stonehouse and D. Gilmore, eds.). University Park Press, Baltimore, 486 pp.