Phascolarctos
Sign in to savePhascolarctos is a genus of marsupials with one extant species, the koala Phascolarctos cinereus, an iconic animal of Australia. Several extinct species of the genus are known from fossil material; these were also large tree dwellers that browsed on Eucalyptus leaves.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderDiprotodontia
- FamilyPhascolarctidae
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- Phascolarctidae
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Phascolarctos is a genus of marsupials with one extant species, the koala Phascolarctos cinereus, an iconic animal of Australia. Several extinct species of the genus are known from fossil material; these were also large tree dwellers that browsed on Eucalyptus leaves.
==Taxonomy== The genus was named by French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816.