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GENUS Macrotis
Author: | Reid, 1836. | Actual Date: | 1837 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 131. | Type Species: | Perameles lagotis Reid, 1837. | 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. |
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| Offspring: SPECIES lagotis SPECIES leucura | Synonyms:
Paragalia Gray, 1841 Peragale Lydekker, 1887 Phalacomys Anon., 1854 Thalaconus Richardson, Dallas, Cobbold, Baird and White, 1862 Thylacomys Blyth, 1840
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