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 .