phalanger vs marsupial

phalanger and marsupial both are nouns.

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

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

phalanger: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
marsupial: mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried

Other hypernyms of phalanger include pouched mammal.

phalanger (noun)	marsupial (noun)
small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails	mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried

phalanger (adjective)	marsupial (adjective)
	of or relating to the marsupials