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Genus of marsupials From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Lasiorhinus[1] | |
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Southern hairy-nosed wombat | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Vombatidae |
Genus: | Lasiorhinus J. E. Gray, 1863 |
Type species | |
Lasiorhinus mcoyi[2] J. E. Gray, 1863 | |
Species | |
See text |
The genus includes the following species:
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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![]() | 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 |
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