Genus Phascolarctos Blainville, 1816

• Phascolarctos Blainville, H.M.D. de 1816. Prodrome d'une nouvelle distribution systématique du règne animal. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 8: 113-124 [start page on volume "105" is a typing error] [108].

  Type species:

   Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss, 1817 by monotypy.
• Lipurus Goldfuss, G.A. 1817. Schreber's die Säugethiere, in. Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Fortgesetzt von A. Goldfuss 65e cahier. [pl. 155 Aa Bb].

  Type species:

   Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss, 1817 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.
• Morodactylus Goldfuss, G.A. 1820. Handbuch der Zoologie: Zweite Abteilung. Nürnberg : Johan Leonhard Schrag Vol. 2 pp. i-xxiv, 1-513, Figs 3-4. [445] [nom. nov. for Lipurus Goldfuss, 1817].
• Koala Schinz, H.R. 1821. Das Tierreich eingeheilt nach dem Bau der Thiere als Grundlage ihrer Naturgeschichte und der Vergleichenden Anatomie von dem Herrn Ritter von Cuvier Staatsgrath von Fransreich und beständiger Secretär der Academie der Wissenschaften U.S.W. Aus dem Französischen frey übersetzt und mit vielen Zusätzen versehen. Säugethiere und Vögel. Stuttgart : J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. [265].

  Type species:

   Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss, 1817 by monotypy.
• Draximenus Lay, G.T. 1825. [no title]. 22 in Wilkes, J. (ed.). Encyclopaedia Londiniensis, or universal dictionary of arts, sciences and literature… Embellished by… engravings. London : Publisher unknown. [744] [nom. nov., cited as 'new name only' by Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122; year is incorrect; Vol. 22 published in 1829, no reference to koalas or to Draximenus on page stated or elsewhere].

  Secondary source:

   Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.
• Liscurus McMurtrie 1834. [Unknown]. p. 78 in Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c. with supplementary additions to each order, by Edward Griffith, F.L.S., A.S., corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c. and others. London : Whittaker & Co. Vol. 12 viii + 601 pp. 61 pls. [78] [incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Secondary source:

   Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McKay, G.M. 1988. Phascolarctidae. pp. 51-52 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

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