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The koala is found in coastal areas of the island's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is easily recognisable by its stout, tailless body and large head with round, fluffy ears and large, dark nose.
The Australian government declared the species as endangered by extinction in 2022. While the koala was previously classified as Least Concern on the Red List, it was uplisted to Vulnerable in 2016. [1] Australian policy makers declined a 2009 proposal to include the koala in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. [2]
The type species, the modern koala, was named as Lipurus cinereus by G. A. Goldfuss in 1817, later combined as Phascolarctos cinereus. [5] Goldfuss published this name with a reproduction of John Lewin's 1803 illustration of the species in New South Wales. An accepted synonymy of other generic names referring to Phascolarctos was published in ...
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The Phascolarctidae (φάσκωλος (phaskolos) - pouch or bag, ἄρκτος (arktos) - bear, from the Greek phascolos + arctos meaning pouched bear) is a family of marsupials of the order Diprotodontia, consisting of only one extant species, the koala, [1] and six well-known fossil species, with another six less well known fossil species, and two fossil species of the genus Koobor, whose ...
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