The genus Petaurus contains flying phalangers or wrist-winged gliders, a group of arboreal possums native to Australia, New Guinea, and surrounding islands. There are eight species: the sugar glider,

Phalangeriformes are quadrupedal marsupials with long tails. They are a paraphyletic suborder of diprotodontia, consiting of about 70 species of small to medium-sized marsupials native to Australia, N