''Vombatus'' is a genus of

marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

that contains a single living species, the

common wombat The common wombat (''Vombatus ursinus''), also known as the bare-nosed wombat, is a marsupial, one of three extant species of wombats and the only one in the genus ''Vombatus''. It has three subspecies: ''Vombatus ursinus hirsutus'', found on the ...

(''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 extinct between 10,000 and 20,000 BP. Description Fossils of this speci ...

'') 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