Poole, Karen E.
Lasiorhinus
Sign in to saveLasiorhinus 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 range within the Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, but formerly also existed in Victoria and New South Wales. There are about 200 or less northern hairy-nosed wombat indivi
Species
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
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Lasiorhinus est un genre de mammifères marsupiaux regroupant deux espèces de wombat à nez poilu.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 60
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Vombatidae
- Collections
- UCMP
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Vombatidae
- Image
- Wombat 1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Lasiorhinus
- Commons category
- Lasiorhinus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Lasiorhinus
- endemic to
- Australia
- taxon author citation
- Gray, 1863
- taxonomic type
- southern hairy-nosed wombat
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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 range within the Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, but formerly also existed in Victoria and New South Wales. There are about 200 or less northern hairy-nosed wombat individuals remaining in the wild today.
==Species== The genus includes the following species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Lasiorhinus krefftii||Northern hairy-nosed wombat || Queensland |- |120px ||Lasiorhinus latifrons|| Southern hairy-nosed wombat || From the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area |- |}
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