Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 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 ).