- Lagorchestes
Taxobox
name = LagorchestesMSW3 Groves|pages=62-63]
fossil_range = Recent [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=40152&is_real_user=1 The Paleobiology Database ] ]
image_caption =Eastern Hare-wallaby
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
infraclassis =Marsupialia
ordo =Diprotodontia
subordo =Macropodiformes
familia = Macropodidae
subfamilia =Macropodinae
genus = "Lagorchestes"
genus_authority = Gould, 1841
type_species = "Macropus leporides"
type_species authority = Gould, 1841
subdivision_ranks =Species
subdivision =
*"L. asomatus"
*"L. conspicillatus"
*"L. hirsutus"
*"L. leporides""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 Spectacled Hare-Wallaby (still extant).
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