Editing Macrotis (section)

{{Short description|Genus of marsupials}}
{{redirect|Bilby}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = 
| image_caption = Greater bilby
| parent_authority = [[Benjamin Arthur Bensley|Bensley]], 1903
| taxon = Macrotis
| authority = Reid, 1837
| type_species = ''[[Macrotis lagotis]]''
| type_species_authority = Reid, 1837<ref name="Reid1837" />
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 
* ''[[Macrotis lagotis|M. lagotis]]''
* †''[[Macrotis leucura|M. leucura]]''
| synonyms = 
* ''Paragalia'' {{small|Gray, 1841}}
* ''Peragale'' {{small|Lydekker, 1887}}
* ''Phalacomys'' {{small|anon., 1854}}
* ''Thalaconus'' {{small|Richardson, Dallas, Cobbold, Baird and White, 1862}}
* ''Thylacomys'' {{small|Blyth, 1840}}<ref>{{cite web|author1=Wilson & Reeder |title=Genus ''Macrotis'' |url=http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=10900003 |website=Mammal Species of the World |access-date=14 August 2014 |archive-date=27 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827044835/http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=10900003 |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Macrotis''''' is a genus of desert-dwelling [[marsupial]] omnivores known as '''bilbies''' or '''rabbit-bandicoots''';<ref name=MW>{{MerriamWebsterDictionary|Thylacomys}} Unabridged {{subscription required}}</ref> they are members of the order [[Peramelemorphia]]. 

At the time of [[History of Australia|European colonisation]] of [[Australia]], there were two species. The [[lesser bilby]] became extinct in the 1950s; the [[greater bilby]] survives but remains endangered. It is currently listed as a [[vulnerable species]]. The greater bilby is on average {{convert|55|cm|abbr=on}} long, excluding the tail, which is usually around {{convert|29|cm|abbr=on}} long. Its fur is usually grey or white; it has a long, pointy nose and very long ears, hence the reference of its nickname to [[rabbit]]s.

[[Image:(1)Bilby-5.jpg|Bilby at [[Featherdale Wildlife Park]]|thumb]]