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GENUS Lagostrophus

Author:Thomas, 1886.
Actual Date:1887
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886: 544.
Type Species:Kangurus fasciatus Peron and Lesueur, 1807.
Comments:McKenna and Bell (1997) placed this in Macropodinae, but it was convincingly argued to be a member of subfamily Sthenurinae by Flannery (1983). The other Sthenurinae are giant fossil kangaroos.
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SPECIES fasciatus

SUBSPECIES fasciatus

SUBSPECIES baudinettei

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