Mesembriomys Palmer, 1906

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 : 619

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

TYPE SPECIES: Mus hirsutus Gould, 1842 View in CoL (= 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.