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 ] ]

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image_caption = Eastern Hare-wallaby
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
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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