Koalas In many cases are called bears, but that is a misnomer. Though their scientific genus, Phascolarctos, translates as "pouched bear", koalas are not associates with the bear, or Ursidae family.13 Koalas are literally additional carefully relevant to kangaroos, bandicoots and possums than real bears. Koalas are marsupial mammals, which waiting for link from Article Directories (10)