Conilurus albipes (Lichtenstein, 1829) . Darst. Säugeth., 6, 2 unno, text pages and pl. 29.

TYPE LOCALITY: SE Australia (Neuholland); see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:155) .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; once occurred in a strip from SE Queensland through coastal New South Wales and Victoria into SE South Australia (see Watts and Aslin, 1981:130).

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct.

SYNONYMS: constructor, destructor .

COMMENTS: For complete citation see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:155). Living C. albipes have not been encountered by naturalists for over a century and the species is apparently extinct (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Watts and Aslin, 1981).