Conilurus Ogilby, 1838 . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 18:124.

TYPE SPECIES: Conylurus constructor Ogilby, 1838 (= Hapalotis albipes Lichtenstein, 1829).

SYNONYMS: Conylurus, Hapalotis .

COMMENTS: Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c:167) that is phylogenetically closely allied to Mesembriomys and Leporillus (see Watts et al., 1992, and references therein); part of the group is also designated as the Conilurini where Conilurus is placed (Baverstock, 1984). Mahoney and Richardson (1988: 154) cataloged taxonomic, distributional, and biological references.