Lasiorhinus
Genus of marsupials
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Lasiorhinus is the genus containing the two extant hairy-nosed wombats, which are found in Australia. The southern hairy-nosed wombat is found in some of the semiarid to arid regions belt from New South Wales southwest to the South Australia-Western Australia border. The IUCN categorises it as Near Threatened. Conversely, the northern hairy-nosed wombat is categorised as Critically Endangered and only survives in a 3-square-kilometre (1.2 sq mi) range within the Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, but formerly also existed in Victoria and New South Wales. There are about 200 or less northern hairy-nosed wombat individuals remaining in the wild today.
| Lasiorhinus[1] | |
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| Southern hairy-nosed wombat | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Vombatidae |
| Genus: | Lasiorhinus J. E. Gray, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Lasiorhinus mcoyi[2] | |
| Species | |
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Species
The genus includes the following species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Lasiorhinus krefftii | Northern hairy-nosed wombat | Queensland |
 | Lasiorhinus latifrons | Southern hairy-nosed wombat | From the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area |
