Editing Macrotis (section)

== Taxonomy ==
''Macrotis'' means 'big-eared' ([[wikt:μακρός|{{transliteration|grc|macro-}}]] + [[wikt:οὖς|{{transliteration|grc|ōt-}}]] 'ear') in Greek, referring to the animal's large, long ears.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Jim|title=Mammals of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QHxFAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Pensoft Publishers|isbn=978-954-642-198-2|page=39}}</ref>
The genus name was first proposed as a subgeneric classification, which after a century of taxonomic confusion was eventually stabilised as the accepted name in a 1932 revision by [[Ellis Troughton]]. In reviewing the systematic arrangement of the genus, Troughton recognised three species names, including one highly variable population with six subspecies.<ref name="Troughton1932" />

The family's current name ''Thylacomyidae'' is derived from an invalid [[synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]] ''Thylacomys'', meaning 'pouched mouse', from the Ancient Greek ''{{transliteration|grc|thýlakos}}'' ({{lang|grc|θύλακος}}, 'pouch, sack') and ''{{transliteration|grc|mys}}'' ({{lang|grc|μῦς}}, 'mouse, muscle'),<ref name=MW/> sometimes misspelt ''Thalacomys''.<ref>{{cite web|title=''Thalacomys''|url=http://uio.mbl.edu/NZ/detail.php?uid=197713&d=1|website=Nomenclator Zoologicus Record|publisher=The Marine Biological Laboratory|quote=err. pro ''Thyl''- Owen 1838|access-date=25 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101082008/http://uio.mbl.edu/NZ/detail.php?uid=197713&d=1|archive-date=1 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Waite|first1=Edgar R.|title=The generic name ''Thylacomys''|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|series=Series 7|date=1900|volume=5|issue=26|pages=222–223|doi=10.1080/00222930008678272|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1429997|access-date=27 June 2019|archive-date=14 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714051427/https://zenodo.org/record/1429997|url-status=live}}</ref>

The term ''bilby'' is a [[loanword]] from the [[Kamilaroi|Yuwaalaraay]] [[Indigenous Australian|Aboriginal]] language of northern [[New South Wales]], meaning long-nosed rat. It is known as ''dalgite'' in [[Western Australia]], and in [[South Australia]], ''pinkie'' is sometimes used.<ref>{{cite web|title=bilby|url=http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aewords/aewords_ab.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218125222/http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aewords/aewords_ab.php|archive-date=18 February 2007|access-date=2014-04-22|website=Australian Words|publisher=Australian National Dictionary Centre}}</ref> The [[Wiradjuri]] of New South Wales also call it "bilby".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Yokose|first=Hiroyuki|url=http://www.kasei.ac.jp/library/kiyou/2001/13.YOKOSE.pdf|title=Aboriginal Words in Australian English|year=2001|pages=169–180|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928232122/http://www.kasei.ac.jp/library/kiyou/2001/13.YOKOSE.pdf|archive-date=28 September 2006}}</ref>
[[Gerard Krefft]] recorded the name ''Jacko'' used by the peoples of the lower [[Darling River|Darling]] in 1864, emended to ''Jecko'' in 1866 along with ''Wuirrapur'' from the peoples at the lower [[Murray River]].<ref name="Troughton1932">{{cite journal |last1=Troughton |first1=E. |title=A revision of the rabbit-bandicoots. Family Peramelidae, genus ''Macrotis'' |journal=The Australian Zoologist |date=1932 |volume=7 |pages=219–236 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/244013 |access-date=28 July 2019 |archive-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728233538/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/244013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Classification ===
{{see also|List of peramelemorphs}}
The placement of the population within taxonomic classification has changed in recent years. Vaughan (1978){{full citation needed|date=December 2015}} and Groves and Flannery (1990){{full citation needed|date=December 2015}} both placed this family{{which|date=December 2015}} within the family [[Peramelidae]]. Kirsch et al. (1997){{full citation needed|date=December 2015}} found them to be distinct from the species in [[Peroryctidae]] (which is now a subfamily in Peramelidae). McKenna and Bell (1997){{full citation needed|date=December 2015}} also placed it in Peramelidae, but as the sister of ''[[Pig-footed bandicoot|Chaeropus]]'' in the subfamily Chaeropodinae.<ref>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=38|id=10900003|heading=Macrotis}}</ref>

Here is a summary of the treatment as a peramelemorph family:
* '''Thylacomyidae'''
** Genus †''[[Bulbadon]]'' <small>Travouillon, Beck & Case 2021</small>
*** ?†''[[Bulbadon warburtonae|B. warburtonae]]'' <small>Travouillon, Beck & Case 2021</small>
** Genus †''[[Ischnodon]]'' <small>Stirton 1955</small>
*** †''[[Ischnodon australis|I. australis]]'' <small>Stirton 1955</small><ref>Stirton, R.A., 1955. Late tertiary marsupials from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 11, 247–268.</ref>
** Genus †''[[Liyamayi]]'' <small>Travouillon et al. 2014</small>
*** †''[[Liyamayi dayi|L. dayi]]'' <small>Travouillon et al. 2014</small><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Travouillon | first1 = K.J. | last2 = Hand | first2 = S. J. | last3 = Archer | first3 = M. | last4 = Black | first4 = K. H. | year = 2014 | title = Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (Marsupialia, Peramelidae and Thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 34 | issue = 2| pages = 375–382 | doi=10.1080/02724634.2013.799071| bibcode = 2014JVPal..34..375T | s2cid = 85622058 | url = https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Earliest_modern_bandicoot_and_bilby_Marsupialia_Peramelidae_and_Thylacomyidae_from_the_Miocene_of_the_Riversleigh_World_Heritage_Area_northwestern_Queensland_Australia/963509 | url-access = subscription }}</ref>
** Genus ''Macrotis'' <small>(Reid 1837)</small>
*** ''[[Macrotis lagotis|M. lagotis]]'' <small>(Reid 1837) Jentink 1887</small> (Greater bilby)
*** †''[[Macrotis leucura|M. leucura]]'' <small>(Thomas 1887) Iredale & Troughton 1934</small> (Lesser bilby)