Phascolarctos

Phascolarctos
	A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) climbing a tree in Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Phascolarctidae
Genus:	Phascolarctos; Blainville, 1816
Type species
	Lipurus cinereus; Goldfuss, 1817
Species
	Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss, 1817), koala; †Phascolarctos maris N. S. Pledge. 1987.; †Phascolarctos stirtoni Bartholomai 1968.; †Phascolarctos yorkensis (Black and Archer, 1997);
Synonyms
	Draximenus Anonymous, 1829; Draximenus Lay, 1825; Koala Schinz, 1821; Kola Gray, 1821; Lipurus Goldfuss, 1817; Liscurus McMurtrie, 1834; Morodactylus Goldfuss, 1820; Phascolarctus Brookes, 1828;

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.

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