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Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould 1844

Description

Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould 1844

Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould 1844, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844: 32.

Type Locality: Australia, Western Australia, York district.

Vernacular Names: Rufous Hare-wallaby.

Synonyms: Lagorchestes bernieri Thomas 1907; Lagorchestes dorreae Thomas 1907.

Distribution: C Western Australia, C Australia, Dorre Isl and Bernier Isl (Western Australia). Survives only on Bernier and Dorre Isls, and a tiny area NW of Alice Springs (Northern Territory, Australia).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as L. h. hirsutus, otherwise Vulnerable. Rare.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Diprotodontia, pp. 43-70 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gould
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Diprotodontia
Family
Macropodidae
Genus
Lagorchestes
Species
hirsutus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould, 1844 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005