Vombatus

{{Short description|Genus of mammals}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = | image = Vombatus ursinus -Maria Island National Park.jpg | image_caption = [[Common wombat]] ''(Vombatus ursinus)'' | taxon = Vombatus | authority = [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|É. Geoffroy]], 1803 | type_species = ''[[Vombatus ursinus]]'' | type_species_authority = [[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1800 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}

'''''Vombatus''''' is a genus of [[marsupial]] that contains a single living species, the [[common wombat]] (''Vombatus ursinus).''

The recently extinct Hackett's wombat (''[[Vombatus hacketti]]'') is also a member of this genus.<ref name=Glauert>{{cite journal |last1=Glauert |first1=Ludwig |title=The Mammoth cave |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery |date=1910 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=11–36}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZLuF1YXYTcC&q=Euryzygoma&pg=PA251|title=Extinctions in Near Time|last=MacPhee|first=R. D. E.|date=1999-06-30|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9780306460920}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" !Image !Scientific name !Distribution |- |[[File:Wombat at Lone Pine.jpg|alt=Borris the wombat at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary|frameless|195x195px]] |''[[Common wombat|Vombatus ursinus]]'', common wombat |[[File:Common Wombat area.png|alt=Common wombat distribution|frameless|150x150px]] |- | |†''[[Vombatus hacketti]]'', Hackett's wombat |Southwest Australia |}

==References== {{Reflist}}{{Vombatiformes}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q10832986}}

[[Category:Mammal genera with one living species]] [[Category:Marsupial genera]] [[Category:Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]] [[Category:Vombatiforms]]