Order Peramelemorphia Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 38 42 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Macrotis Reid 1836 Macrotis Reid 1836 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 131 . Type Species: Perameles lagotis Reid 1837 Synonyms: Paragalia Gray 1841 ; Peragale Lydekker 1887 ; Phalacomys Anon. 1854 ; Thalaconus Richardson, Dallas, Cobbold, Baird and White 1862 ; Thylacomys Blyth 1840 . Species and subspecies: 2 species: Species Macrotis lagotis Reid 1836 Species Macrotis leucura Thomas 1887 Discussion: Not preoccupied by Macrotis Dejean, 1833 , a nomen nudum ( Troughton, 1932 b ). Archer and Kirsch (1977) placed Macrotis (including its junior synonym Thylacomys ) in a separate family (the name available being Thylacomyidae ), rather than in Peramelidae . Groves and Flannery (1990) placed Macrotis back in Peramelidae .