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Lasiorhinus krefftii gillespiei (De Vis, 1900:16)

Moonie River wombat, Southern Queensland hairy-nosed wombat, Gillespie's wombat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Phascolomys gillespiei De Vis, 1900:16 (basionym); Wombatula gillespiei (De Vis, 1900:16); Lasiorhinus gillespiei (De Vis, 1900:16); Lasiorhinus latifrons gillepspiei (De Vis, 1900:16)

 

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1891 (De Vis, 1900:14)

 

Distribution

Moonie River, south-eastern Queensland, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

De Vis, Charles W. (1900). A new species of hairy-nosed wombat. Annals of the Queensland Museum 5: 14-16, pl. ix-x.

 

Other references:

Aitken, P. (1979). The status of endangered Australian wombats, bandicoots and the marsupial mole, pp. 61-65. In: Tyler, Michael J. (ed.). The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife. Adelaide: Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.

Crowcroft, Peter. (1965). Studies on the hairy-nosed wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen, 1845). Records of the South Australian Museum 15: 383-397.

Dawson, Lyndall. (1983). The taxonomic status of small fossil wombats (Vombatidae: Marsupialia) from Quaternary deposits, and of related modern wombats. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 107: 101-123.

Goodwin, Harry A. and Goodwin, J. M. (1973). List of mammals which have become extinct or are possibly extinct since 1600. Int. Union Conserv. Nat. Occas. Pap. 8: 1-20.

Iredale, Tom and Troughton, Ellis Le Geyt. (1934). A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i-xii, 1-122.

Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 99]

Johnson, Chris N. and Gordon, G. (1995). Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii, pp. 200-201. In: Strahan, Ronald (ed.). The Mammals of Australia. Chatswood, N.S.W.: Reed Books. 756 pp.

Longman, H. A. (1939). A central Queensland wombat. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11: 283-287.

Ride, W. D. L. (1970). A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Tate, G. H. H. (1951). The Wombats (Marsupialia, Phascolomyidae). American Museum Novitates 1525: 1-18.

Thornback, Jane and Jenkins, Martin (compilers). (1982). The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened Mammalian Taxa of the Americas and the Australasian Zoogeographic Region (Excluding Cetacea). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 516 pp.

Woinarski, John, Burbidge, Andrew and Harrison, Peter. (2014). The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing. 1056 pp.

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