Lasiorhinus

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]
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 (= Phascolomys latifrons Owen, 1845)
Species
See text

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

• †Lasiorhinus angustidens (fossil)^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}