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The name "wombat" comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. [3] It was first recorded in January 1798, when John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales.
The common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), also known as the bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three extant species of wombats and the only one in the genus Vombatus.It has three subspecies: Vombatus ursinus hirsutus, found on the Australian mainland; Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis (Tasmanian wombat), found in Tasmania; and Vombatus ursinus ursinus (Bass Strait wombat), found on Flinders ...
Genus Lasiorhinus (hairy-nosed wombats) Northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) Southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) Genus Vombatus (naked-nosed wombat) Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
Wild dogs are the wombat's primary predator, but the spread of invasive herbivores such as the European rabbit and the actions of landowners have also contributed to their decline. [20] There have been two reports of male northern hairy-nosed wombats contracting a fungal infection caused by Emmonsia parva, a soil saprophytic fungus. It is ...
Vombatus is a genus of marsupial that contains a single living species, the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus). The recently extinct Hackett's wombat (Vombatus hacketti) is also a member of this genus. [1] [2]
[2] [4] The sole species is Eustrephus latifolius, commonly known as wombat berry. It is an evergreen vine native to Malesia , the Pacific Islands and eastern Australia . It grows in sclerophyll forest, woodland , heathlands , shrublands, gallery forest and rainforests .
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.
Vombatus hacketti, Hackett's wombat, is an extinct species of wombat that lived in Southwest Australia during the Late Pleistocene. It survived until very recently, going extinct between 10,000 and 20,000 BP.