Phascolarctos
(Redirected from Koala)
[edit]
| Taxonavigation: Vombatiformes |
|---|
| Template loop detected: Template:Taxonav
Clade: Marsupialiformes |
Familia: Phascolarctidae
Genus: Phascolarctos
Species:
P. cinereus –
†P. stirtoni –
†P. yorkensis –
?†P. maris
Name[edit]
Phascolarctos Blainville, 1816
Type species: Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss, 1816
Synonyms[edit]
- Draximenus Lay, 1825
- Koala Schinz, 1821
- Lipurus Goldfuss, 1817
- Liscurus McMurtrie, 1834
- Morodactylus Goldfuss, 1820
- Cundokoala Pledge, 1992
References[edit]
- Piper, K.J. 2005: An early Pleistocene record of a giant koala (Phascolarctidae: Marsupialia) from western Victoria. Australian mammalogy, 27: 221–223. DOI: 10.1071/AM05221
- Pledge, N.S. 1987: Phascolarctos maris, a new species of koala (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from the Early Pliocene of South Australia. Pp. 327–330 in Archer, M. (ed.) Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Limited, England, Chipping Norton. ISBN 0949324051
- Pledge, N.S. 1992: The Curramulka local fauna: a new Late Tertiary fossil assemblage from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Beagle, 9: 115–142. ISSN: 0811-3653
- Price, G.J.; Zhao, J-x.; Feng, Y-x.; Hocknull, S.A. 2009: New records of Plio-Pleistocene koalas from Australia: palaeoecological and taxonomic implications. Records of the Australian Museum, 61: 39–48. ISSN: 0067-1975 DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.61.2009.1518
- Phascolarctos in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. - Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), p. 108.
- Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page.