cuscus vs phalanger

cuscus and phalanger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cuscus	Yes	No	No	No
phalanger	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, phalanger is a hypernym of cuscus; that is, phalanger is a word with a broader meaning than cuscus:

cuscus: woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia
phalanger: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

Other hypernyms of cuscus include opossum, possum.

cuscus (noun)	phalanger (noun)
woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia	small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails