Lasiorhinus[1]
Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Vombatidae
Genus: Lasiorhinus
Gray, 1863
Type species
Lasiorhinus mcoyi[2]
Gray, 1863
Species

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Lasiorhinus is the genus containing the two extant hairy-nosed wombats, which are found in Australia. The southern hairy-nosed wombat is found in some of the semiarid to arid regions belt from New South Wales southwest to the South Australia-Western Australia border. The IUCN categorises it as Near Threatened. Conversely, the northern hairy-nosed wombat is categorised as Critically Endangered and only survives in a 3-square-kilometre (1.2 sq mi) range within the Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, but formerly also existed in Victoria and New South Wales.

Species

The genus includes the following species:

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Lasiorhinus krefftii Northern hairy-nosed wombat Queensland
Lasiorhinus latifrons Southern hairy-nosed wombat From the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area

Fossils

References

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