Spectacled hare-wallaby

Weight

2.74 kg – 3.05 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

8.8 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

8.82 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

30.6 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

12.4 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1.71src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The spectacled hare-wallaby is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

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

The spectacled hare-wallaby is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

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 Least Concern species.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderDiprotodontia
5. familyMacropodidae
6. genusLagorchestes
7. SpeciesLagorchestes conspicillatus Gould, 1841

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

NT, Near Threatened

Rufous hare-wallaby

Lagorchestes hirsutus

Macropodidae

EX, Extinct

Eastern hare-wallaby

Lagorchestes leporides

Macropodidae

EX, Extinct

L

Lake Mackay hare-wallaby

Lagorchestes asomatus

MacropodidaeNo free photo yet

L

Lagorchestes gymnotis

MacropodidaeNo free photo yet

CompareSpectacled hare-wallaby vs Rufous hare-wallabySpectacled hare-wallaby vs Eastern hare-wallabySpectacled hare-wallaby vs Lake Mackay hare-wallabySpectacled hare-wallaby vs Lagorchestes gymnotis

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@misc{spectacled_hare_wallaby_2026,
  title = {Spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/spectacled-hare-wallaby},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}