Family PHASCOLARCTIDAE

(KOALA)

• Medium-sized, sexually dimorphic, largely arboreal marsupial, with short, stocky body and square, box-like skull; fused digits (syndactylous); large and flattened bare nose; and forward-facing eyes.

• 65-80 cm.

• Australasian Region.

• Open sclerophyll forests and woodlands with acceptable eucalypt food trees.

• 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.