Peramelemorphia Ameghino 1889

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Peramelemorphia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 38-42 : 38

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Families: 3 families with 8 genera and 21 species:

Family Thylacomyidae Bensley 1903 (1 genus with 2 species)

Family Chaeropodidae Gill 1872 (1 genus with 1 species)

Family Peramelidae Gray 1825 (6 genera with 18 species and 18 subspecies)

Discussion: Recognized as an order by Aplin and Archer (1987) who proposed a new syncretic classification of the marsupials. McKenna and Bell (1997) used the name Peramelia.

Aplin, K. P., and M. Archer. 1987. Recent advances in marsupial systematics with a new syncretic classification. Pp. xv-lxxii, in Possums and opossums: Studies in evolution (M. Archer, ed.). Surrey Beatty and Sons Pty. Ltd. and Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 1: 1 - 400.

Gill, T. 1872. Arrangement of the families of mammals with analytical tables. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 11: 1 - 98.

Gray, J. E. 1825. Outline of an attempt at the disposition of the Mammalia into tribes and families with a list of the genera apparently appertaining to each tribe. Annals of Philosophy, n. s., ser. 2, 10: 337 - 344.

McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.