Banded hare-wallaby

Weight

1.6 kg – 3 kgsrc for Weight

Length

72 cm – 77 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

4 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

183 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

0.9 – 1src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

12.9 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1.1src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The banded hare-wallaby is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The banded hare-wallaby is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Vulnerable species. What the categories mean.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderDiprotodontia
5. familyMacropodidae
6. genusLagostrophus
7. SpeciesLagostrophus fasciatus (Peron & Lesueur, 1807)

Synonyms Kangurus fasciatus, Macropus elegans

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

VU, Vulnerable

Quokka

Setonix brachyurus

Macropodidae

LC, Least Concern

Eastern grey kangaroo

Macropus giganteus

Macropodidae

LC, Least Concern

Western grey kangaroo

Macropus fuliginosus

Macropodidae

LC, Least Concern

Swamp wallaby

Wallabia bicolor

Macropodidae

EN, Endangered

Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo

Dendrolagus goodfellowi

Macropodidae

LC, Least Concern

Agile wallaby

Notamacropus agilis

Macropodidae

CompareBanded hare-wallaby vs QuokkaBanded hare-wallaby vs Eastern grey kangarooBanded hare-wallaby vs Western grey kangarooBanded hare-wallaby vs Swamp wallaby

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@misc{banded_hare_wallaby_2026,
  title = {Banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/banded-hare-wallaby},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}