Eastern hare-wallaby | |
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Specimen at the Melbourne Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Macropodidae |
Genus: | Lagorchestes |
Species: | †L. leporides
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Binomial name | |
†Lagorchestes leporides (Gould, 1841)
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Historic eastern hare-wallaby range in orange |
The eastern hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes leporides), once also known as the common hare wallaby, is an extinct species of wallaby that was native to southeastern Australia. It was first described by John Gould in 1841.