Implicating sugar_glider → opossum
Link to implication

Reason:

The sugar glider is a species of possum, specifically it is one of several species of gliding possum. Didn't know how I never realized it; to be quite honest, they're strikingly similar to australian possum species in appearance and color scheme, especially in the similar shaped faces. Especially apparent when you check out sugar glider/possum relatives such as the greater glider.

Also, if approved, I'm also suggesting the removal of the marsupial implication from sugar glider, as possum would already be implied as such.

despite of the name of the gliding possums, they are not opossums and they are not even closely related with opossums.

-1. I would rather have sugar gliders imply what they are. They're possums, not opossums.

BlueDingo said:
-1. I would rather have sugar gliders imply what they are. They're possums, not opossums.

I know, they are related to possums and NOT opossums

However in e621, possum aliases to opossum, for some reason. I would much rather imply it to possum but with the alias I couldn't. I suppose I should've suggested an unalias and a separate tag for possum and opossum first

Ledian said:
despite of the name of the gliding possums, they are not opossums and they are not even closely related with opossums.

The family of petauridae (gliding possums) are phalangeriformes, aka within the species of Australian possums (tho yes, not American opossums)

Overall I think perhaps the main problem that should be fixed first is the separation of possum and opossum

Already tried, didn't work. Others have tried as well.

BlueDingo said:
Already tried, didn't work. Others have tried as well.

Bluh what a pain :/ an un-alias would probably fix this issue but I suppose it's not happening at the moment

facelessmess said:
Bluh what a pain :/ an un-alias would probably fix this issue but I suppose it's not happening at the moment

Another option is to implicate sugar_glider to gliding_possum along with the others listed on the Wikipedia page (assuming we even have them) then implicate that to marsupial.

sugar_glider I-> gliding_possum I-> marsupial

The only one that might be a bit iffy is "squirrel glider" because most of you are going to think "Oh, you mean flying squirrel?" despite the two not being even remotely related to each other.

BlueDingo said:
Another option is to implicate sugar_glider to gliding_possum along with the others listed on the Wikipedia page (assuming we even have them) then implicate that to marsupial.

sugar_glider I-> gliding_possum I-> marsupial

The only one that might be a bit iffy is "squirrel glider" because most of you are going to think "Oh, you mean flying squirrel?" despite the two not being even remotely related to each other.

Hmm that might be our best bet, maybe