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title: "Westelijke buidelhaas"
description: "Lagorchestes hirsutus — Zoogdieren. The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), also known as the mala or wurrup, is a small macropod found in Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/rufous-hare-wallaby
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Westelijke buidelhaas

> Lagorchestes hirsutus — Zoogdieren. The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), also known as the mala or wurrup, is a small macropod found in Australia.

- Scientific name: *Lagorchestes hirsutus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `desert` (Woestijn)
- iNaturalist observations: 53
- Wikidata: [Q226933](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q226933)
- iNaturalist taxon: [42951](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42951)

## Names

- en: Rufous Hare Wallaby
- de: Zottel-Hasenkänguru
- es: Canguro-liebre Peludo
- fr: Wallaby-lièvre de l'ouest
- nl: Westelijke buidelhaas
- pl: Filander kosmaty

## Countries with the most observations

AU (19)

## Summary

The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), also known as the mala or wurrup, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent, but naturally occurring populations are now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island off Western Australia.
Although once widespread in the central and western deserts, predation by feral cats and foxes, and destructive wildfires, caused the last wild population on mainland Australia to go extinct in the early 1990s. Despite its extinction in the wild, the mainland subspecies persisted in captivity.
The species, which…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous_hare-wallaby

## Photo

![Westelijke buidelhaas](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rufous-hare-wallaby/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Gould · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rufous_hare_wallaby.jpg

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rufous-hare-wallaby?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).