Phalangeriformes
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Phalangeriformes is a paraphyletic suborder of about 70 species of small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi. The species are commonly known as possums, gliders, and cuscus. The common name "(o)possum" for various Phalangeriformes species derives from the creatures' resemblance to the opossums of the Americas (the term comes from Powhatan language aposoum "white animal", from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔɬemwa "white dog"). However, although opossums are also marsupials, Australasian possums are more closely related to other Australasian marsupials suc
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- Parent taxon
- Diprotodontia
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- Possum blue mountains aust.jpg
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- Phalangeriformes
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- suborder
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- Category:Possums
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Article · Italiano
I Falangeriformi (Phalangeriformes Szalay, in Archer (ed.), 1982) sono uno dei due sottordini in cui viene suddiviso l'ordine dei Diprotodonti. Le specie del sottordine sono note anche con il nome comune di opossum australiani o possum (per distinguerli dagli “opossum” delle americhe). Il sottordine comprende 63 specie di marsupiali nativi di Australia, Nuova Guinea e Sulawesi.
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