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Southern hairy-nosed wombat

Southern hairy-nosed wombat[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Vombatidae
Genus: Lasiorhinus
Species:
L. latifrons
Binomial name
Lasiorhinus latifrons
(Owen, 1845)
Southern hairy-nosed wombat range

The southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) is one of three extant species of wombats. It is found in scattered areas of semiarid scrub and mallee from the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area. It is the smallest of all three wombat species. The young often do not survive dry seasons. It is the state animal of South Australia.[3]

Among the oldest southern hairy-nosed wombats ever documented were a male and a female from Brookfield Zoo just outside Chicago. Their names were Carver, who lived to be 34, and his mother, Vicky, who lived to be 24.[4] In South Australia in 2010, a tame wombat named Wally was also reported as having reached the age of 34.[5] Hamlet, a wombat at the Toronto Zoo, similarly died at age 34.[6]

  1. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Diprotodontia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Woinarski, J.; Burbidge, A.A. (2016). "Lasiorhinus latifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T40555A21959203. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T40555A21959203.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat". Unique Australian Animals Website. January 2000.
  4. ^ Chicago Zoological Society > Remembering Carver: Oldest Wombat on Record Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 9 March 2013.
  5. ^ AdelaideNow > Wombats living happily ever after Accessed 8 March 2013.
  6. ^ Toronto Zoo mourns Hamlet, world’s oldest wombat, by Laura Beeston, at the Toronto Star; published 8 July 2016; retrieved 27 March 2018

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