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 193464 10.5281/zenodo.7353114 8d1421fa-4e70-45da-8652-b591228a07cf 1-56098-217-9 7353114 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 .