Phascolarctos de Blainville, 1816 . Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), p. 108.

TYPE SPECIES: Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss, 1817 (seen by de Blainville in ms., published 1817).

SYNONYMS: Draximenus, Koala, Lipurus, Liscurus, Morodactylus.