Order Peramelemorphia
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
39
42
book chapter
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Macrotis
Reid, 1837
.
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:131
[1837].
TYPE SPECIES:
Perameles lagotis
Reid, 1837
.
SYNONYMS:
Paragalia, Phalacomys, Thylacomys
.
COMMENTS: Not preoccupied by
Macrotis
Dejean, 1833
, a
nomen nudum
(
Troughton, 1932b
).
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
.