Mesembriomys Palmer, 1906 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 19:97.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus hirsutus Gould, 1842 (= Hapalotis gouldii Gray, 1843).

SYNONYMS: Antinomys.

COMMENTS: Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c: 167), which includes the Conilurini where Baverstock (1984) placed Mesembriomys, and closely related to Leporillus and Conilurus (Watts et al., 1992). Mahoney and Richardson (1988:164) cataloged taxonomic, distributional, and biological references.