Phascolarctos Blainville, 1816

Ghiraldi, Luca, Carmignotto, Ana Paula, Tosetto, Vera, Ingleby, Sandy & Eldridge, Mark D. B., 2021, Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy, Bonn zoological Bulletin 70 (1), pp. 1-14 : 9

Genus Phascolarctos Blainville, 1816

KOALA Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss, 1817 (VU) MZUT T484 (360); mount; unsexed juv.; Australia; 1839–1840; purchased in Rio de Janeiro by Antonio Caffer;

MZUT T485 (898); mount; unsexed ad.; Australia; ex- change with Count Ercole Turati from Milan ( Italy); MZUT T486 (964); mount; w.d.;

MZUT T487 ; skin; unsexed ad.; Gosford, New South Wales, Australia; 1893; donation by G. Podenzana .

Remarks: Giovanni Podenzana (1864-1943) was an Italian naturalist, explorer and ethnographer. During the last decade of XIX. century he travelled in Austra- lia, Tasmania where he gathered numerous ethnographic artifacts for the Museo Civico of La Spezia ( Italy), but also zoological and botanical specimens who enriched the collections of several Italian museums.