Lagorchestes leporides

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 leporides

Species Authority:

(Gould, 1841)

Common Name/s:

English

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Eastern Hare Wallaby, Eastern Hare-wallaby

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Australasian Mammal Assessment Workshop

Evaluator/s:

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

Justification:
Listed as Extinct because this species has not been recorded since 1890.

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 species was endemic to south-eastern Australia. The last specimen was collected in 1890 (Strahan 2008).
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:	This little-known species appears to have inhabited open grassland plains (Strahan 2008).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It has been suggested that an important factor in the decline of hare-wallabies has been the alteration of grassland habitat through trampling and grazing by sheep and cattle. The removal of aboriginal Australians from large areas by European settlers may also have contributed to loss of hare-wallabies by resulting in the removal of regular winter burning regimes and increasing the likelihood of devastating lightening-caused fires in summer months.

Major Threat(s):

It has been suggested that an important factor in the decline of hare-wallabies has been the alteration of grassland habitat through trampling and grazing by sheep and cattle. The removal of aboriginal Australians from large areas by European settlers may also have contributed to loss of hare-wallabies by resulting in the removal of regular winter burning regimes and increasing the likelihood of devastating lightening-caused fires in summer months.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Any reports of the persistence of this species, including finds of recent remains, should be investigated to determine whether it is possibly still extant.

Conservation Actions:

Any reports of the persistence of this species, including finds of recent remains, should be investigated to determine whether it is possibly still extant.

Citation:	Australasian Mammal Assessment Workshop 2008. Lagorchestes leporides. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2009.
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