Leporillus Thomas, 1906 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:83.

TYPE SPECIES: Hapalotis apicalis Gould, 1853 .

COMMENTS: Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c:167), which includes the Conilurini where Baverstock (1984) listed Leporillus . Mahoney and Richardson (1988) cataloged taxonomic, distributional, and biological references.