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Definition of Lagorchestes
1. Noun. Hare wallabies.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Macropodidae, Macropodidae
Member holonyms: Hare Wallaby, Kangaroo Hare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lagorchestes
Literary usage of Lagorchestes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1844)
"... of some Mammalia and Aves of Western Australia:— "With respect to the Kangaroos,
I have heard of the little silver- haired Lagorchestes (Lagorchestes ..."
2. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"... upon the same type as the true Kangaroos, which also, like Lagorchestes,
inhabit the open plains. That Lagorchestes forms a natural group I admit ..."
3. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Macropus elegans, G. Cuvier Regne Anim., i, p. 183 (1817). Lagorchestes ...
Lagorchestes fasciatus, Gould Mamm. Austr., pi. Ivi (l$49). ..."
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