Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby
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The Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes asomatus), also known as the Central Hare-wallaby or Kuluwarri, is an extinct species of macropod 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.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. 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
Lake Mackay
Lake Mackay is the largest of hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes scattered throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory....
in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
. 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.