Conilurus Ogilby, 1838

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 586

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Conilurus Ogilby, 1838 View in CoL . 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.