Lagorchestes

Lagorchestes is a genus of small, rabbit-like mammals commonly known as hare-wallabies. It includes four species native to Australia and New Guinea, two of which are extinct. Hare-wallabies belong to the macropod family (Macropodidae) which includes kangaroos, wallabies, and other marsupials.

Lagorchestes
Eastern hare-wallaby
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Macropodidae
Subfamily:	Macropodinae
Genus:	Lagorchestes Gould, 1841[1]
Type species
Macropus leporides Gould, 1841
Species
†L. asomatus L. conspicillatus L. hirsutus †L. leporides

Species

It has four species, two of which are extinct:

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Spectacled hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus
	Rufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus

Extinct

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	†Lake Mackay hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus
	†Eastern hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes leporides

The oldest known fossil of Lagorchestes is an 11,000-year-old one of the extant spectacled hare-wallaby.^[2]