Phascolarctos

Phascolarctos
	A koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) climbing a tree in Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia
Scientific classification
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.