Lasiorhinus krefftii gillespiei (De Vis, 1900:16)
Moonie River wombat, Southern Queensland hairy-nosed wombat, Gillespie's wombat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
"Subspecific status within Lasiorhinus krefftii requires further research because L. k. krefftii is known only from fossil material and L. k. gillespiei is based on a single skin. The extant population is known as L. k. barnardi."
(Burbidge, 2024)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burbidge, 2024 [but see above])
Last record: 1891 (De Vis, 1900:14)
Distribution
Moonie River, south-eastern Queensland, Australia
Type locality: "Bullanon Station, Moonie River, SE Qld." (Dawson, 1988:48)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Syntypes:
QM J13143 (young male; skin & skull) (Dawson, 1988:48)
QM J13144 (skin & skull) (Dawson, 1988:48)
QM J13145 (skull) (Dawson, 1988:48)
Media
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.
Burbidge, Andrew A. (2024). Australian terrestrial mammals: how many modern extinctions? Australian Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1071/AM23037
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.
Dawson, L. J. (1988). Vombatidae, pp. 48-50. In: Walton, D. W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. x + 273 pp. [p. 48]
Frith, H. J. (1979). Wildlife Conservation, revised edition. Angus & Robertson. xiv + 416 pp. [p. 298, p. 338-339 (species account)]
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.
Horsup, A. and Johnson, C. N. (2023). Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii, pp. 205-207. In: Baker, Andrew M. and Gynther, Ian C. (eds.). Strahan’s Mammals of Australia (4th ed.). Wahroonga, NSW: Reed New Holland Publishers. 848 pp.
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.
Le Souef, A. S. and Burrell, Harry. (1926). The Wild Animals of Australasia. London: Harrap. 388 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.
Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2023). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 2 March 2025]
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Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2025). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 1 March 2025]
Woinarski, John, Burbidge, Andrew and Harrison, Peter. (2014). The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing. 1056 pp.
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