koala
Arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia
Also known as koala bear · coala · koolah
- Scientific name
- Phascolarctos cinereus
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-18
- Phascolarctos cinereus
- Rank
- species
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-18
- species
- Parent taxon
- Phascolarctos
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-18
- Phascolarctos
- Conservation status
- vulnerable
1
Sources- 1.Stated in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2Retrieved 2023-01-02
- vulnerable
- Life expectancy
- 10 years
- Endemic to
- Australia
1
Sources- 1.australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/koala/Retrieved 2022-11-20
- Australia
Overview
All data
122 statements · 35% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Main food source
- leaf part of: eucalypt tree
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- leaf part of: eucalypt tree
- Taxon common name
- Koala
2
Sources- 1.Stated in IUCN Red ListRetrieved 2016-10-21
- 2.Stated in Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names
- Koala
- Koalabär
- Beutelbär
- Aschgrauer Beutelbär
- cóála
- каала
- koala
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- Koala
- Gestation period
- 37 days
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Sources- 1.nplus1.ru/news/2018/07/02/Koala-genomeRetrieved 2020-02-08
- 2.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/life-cycle-koalaRetrieved 2021-05-04
- 37 days
- Litter size
- 1
2
Sources- 1.nplus1.ru/news/2018/07/02/Koala-genomeRetrieved 2020-02-08
- 2.a-z-animals.com/animals/koala/Retrieved 2021-05-04
- 1
- Started
- 700th millennium BCE
- Has characteristic
- viviparity including: time in the pouch
- Taxon author citation
- (Goldfuss, 1817)
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Sources- 1.biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Phascolarctos_cinereusRetrieved 2021-10-22
- (Goldfuss, 1817)
- Original combination
- Lipurus cinereus
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Sources- 1.Stated in Global Biodiversity Information FacilityRetrieved 2021-11-19
- Lipurus cinereus
- Time in the pouch
- 6 months
- Social media followers
- 35,109(May 24, 2023) subreddit: koalas
- Short name
- P. cinereus
On other databases
74 identifiers linking koala across the web's reference databases
- ADW taxon IDPhascolarctos_cinereus
- AGROVOC IDc_4113
- AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID191
- American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus IDafset010100
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID58771
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300310693
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinekoala
- ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID1000404
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/7361
- Australian Faunal Directory IDPhascolarctos_cinereus
- BabelNet ID00048770n
- BBC News topic IDceddn94wgnnt
- BBC Things ID4fcdb7ea-9b12-43a8-a278-361fbba1b6fe
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID122685815
- BOLD Systems taxon ID81252
- CalPhotos taxon IDPhascolarctos+cinereus
- Catalogue of Life ID4FVNB
- Daum Encyclopedia ID24XXXXX44973
- EBiodiversity ID87976
- ECOS ID774
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDanimal/koala
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDkoala
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4S6BkB
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)171623
- Encyclopedia of Life ID128425
- EPPO CodePHQSCI
- FAST ID988226
- Fossilworks taxon ID234486
- Freebase ID/m/04cp_
- GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)2440012
- GenBank assembly accession numberGCA_904813595.1
- Global Species ID901753
- GND ID4239346-2
- Golden ID (archived)Koala-MZ6N
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDkoala
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDkoala-261950
- INaturalist taxon ID42983
- Interlingual Index IDi45209
- IRMNG ID10591552
- ITIS TSN552677
- IUCN taxon ID16892
- J9U entity ID987007545792905171
- KBpedia IDKoala
- Klexikon article IDKoala
- Lex IDkoala
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85072750
- Library of Congress ClassificationQL737.M384
- Macaulay Library taxon IDt-11055109
- MSW ID11000005
- Museum-digital tag ID103862
- NALT ID57682
- Naver Encyclopedia ID (pre-August 2026)1150193
- NCBI taxonomy ID38626
- NDL Authority ID00566060
- NE.se IDkoala
- Observation.org taxon ID86611
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1183212
- Open Tree of Life ID327624
- OpenAlex IDC2909354612
- Paleobiology Database taxon ID234486
- Queensland Biota ID860
- Quora topic IDKoalas-marsupials
- Species Profile and Threats Database ID85104
- Subredditkoalas
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials IDtgm012235
- Treccani Vocabulary IDkoala
- Vikidia article IDit:Koala
- Wellcome Collection concept IDgt87dfy9
- WikiKids IDKoala
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID01885355-n
- Xeno-canto species IDPhascolarctos-cinereus
- Yale LUX IDconcept/44c73a69-1708-4941-9a77-28e1244d549e
- YSO ID13370
- Zhihu topic ID19581023