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Phascolarctos (koalas)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Phascolarctos (from Ancient Greek phaskolos, referring to a pouch or bag, and arktos, meaning "bear") is a genus of marsupials containing only one extant species, the koala (P. cinereus). The genus was named by French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816.
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Species

Phascolarctos cinereus (Koala) (Vulnerable) (Attributes)
Phascolarctos maris
Phascolarctos stirtoni (giant koala)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0