Lasiorhinus

Lasiorhinus [1]
Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Scientific classification
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

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

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

References

1. Groves, C. P. (2005). "Genus Lasiorhinus". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
2. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
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5. "The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database cubit: The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database Extinct Mammals: Marsupials: Lasiorhinus angustidens". cubits.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-21. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
6. Johnson, Chris (2006-11-02). Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50,000-Year History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521686600.
7. MacPhee, Ross D. E.; SUES, HANS-DIETER (2013-11-09). Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   9781475752021.
8. Johnson (2002). "Determinants of loss of mammal species during the Late Quaternary 'megafauna' extinctions: life history and ecology, but not body size". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269 (1506): 2221–2227. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2130. PMC   1691151 . PMID   12427315.
9. MacPhee, R. D. E. (1999-06-30). Extinctions in Near Time. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   9780306460920.