Lagorchestes asomatus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	DIPROTODONTIA	MACROPODIDAE

Scientific Name:

Lagorchestes asomatus

Species Authority:

Finlayson, 1943

Common Name/s:

English

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Central Hare Wallaby, Central Hare-wallaby, Least Hare-wallaby, Least Hare Wallaby

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Burbidge, A. & Johnson, K.

Evaluator/s:

Lamoreux, J. & Hilton-Taylor, C. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
Listed as Extinct because Lagorchestes asomatus is known only from a single skull taken in 1932, although oral history suggests that it might have survived until the early 1960s.

History:

1996	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct (IUCN)
1990	–	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1988	–	Extinct
1986	–	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1982	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This endemic Australian species is known only from a single skull found in the Lake Mackay area on the Western Australia – Northern Territory border. It has not been recorded since the collection of this specimen in 1932. There are oral history records presumed to be of this species up to the early 1960s (Burbidge et al. 1988).
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia

Population [top]

Population:	It is presumed to be extinct.

Population:

It is presumed to be extinct.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited desert sand plains and dunes with spinifex (Triodia) hummock grassland (Burbidge et al. 2008).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Important factors in the decline of hare-wallabies are predation by introduced cats and foxes, and possibly changed fire regimes (A. Burbidge pers. comm.).

Major Threat(s):

Important factors in the decline of hare-wallabies are predation by introduced cats and foxes, and possibly changed fire regimes (A. Burbidge pers. comm.).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	None.

Conservation Actions:

None.

Citation:	Burbidge, A. & Johnson, K. 2008. Lagorchestes asomatus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 November 2009.
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