pusillus CML 3946; Phalanger orientalis AMNH 79750; Myoictis melas AMNH 194403; Phascogale tapoatafa AMNH 160070, 202047, 244882; Neophascogale lorentzii AMNH 152738.
Comparative survey: In Monodelphis dimidiata, Marmosops fuscatus, Marmosa robinsoni, Cryptonanus chacoensis, and some Australasian groups such as Phalanger orientalis and Phascogale tapoatafa, this is a very bulky and well-developed muscle.
The latter condition was also observed in Australasian groups such as Phalanger orientalis and Myoictis melas.
Unlike didelphids and Phalanger (with the P pattern as described above), all of the dasyurids that we dissected conform to the L pattern, having an aponeurotic sheet to which the tendons of m.
In this reconstruction, state 1 (L pattern present) supports the monophily of dasyurids, whereas Phalanger exhibits the P pattern (the plesiomorphic condition that it shares with all didelphids).
France, in addition to Dassault's previously mentioned
PHALANGER program, has tapped an Aeronautique et Systemes/Sagem team to develop the Marula antiradar UAV.