1. Any of various small arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia and adjac islands, having a long tail and dense woolly fur and including the cuscus and the flying phalanger.

2. Arboreal marsupials are numberus the “Sugar squirrels” or phalangers being very similar to our squirrel in appearance, while the Arctogaean squinels are represented with great fidelity by the Notogean flying phalanger [Petaurus sciureus)