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Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby
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Information
Common Name Central Hare-wallaby and Kuluwarri
Range formerly central Australia.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Diprotodontia
Family Macropodidae
Genus Lagorchestes
Species Lagorchestes asomatus
Conservation Status
EXSpecies
Extinct

The Lake Mackay hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes asomatus), also known as the central hare-wallaby or kuluwarri, is an extinct species of hare-wallaby formerly found in central Australia. Very little is known about it.

The Lake Mackay hare-wallaby is known only from a single animal collected in 1932 between Mount Farewell and Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. Only the skull was kept, and this is all the evidence scientists have today for the Lake Mackay hare-wallaby's existence. Its habitat is believed to have been desert sandhills.

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