''Vombatus'' is a genus of

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

that contains a single living species, the

common wombat The common wombat (''Vombatus ursinus''), also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three extant species of wombats and the only one in the genus ''Vombatus''. The common wombat grows to an average of lo ...

(''Vombatus ursinus).'' The recently extinct Hackett's wombat ''(

Vombatus hacketti ''Vombatus hacketti'', Hackett's wombat, is an extinct species of wombat that lived in Southwest Australia during the Late Pleistocene. It survived until very recently, going between 10,000 and 20,000 BP. Description Fossils of this species were ...

)'' is also a member of this genus.

References

Mammal genera with one living species Marsupial genera Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Vombatiforms {{Diprotodont-stub