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The text of this article overlaps with the links to "Main Page", "Recent changes", etc., in the upper left corner. Can someone figure out how to fix that? Michael Hardy 18:44 Apr 23, 2003 (UTC)
I just uploaded some photos of the Red-necked Pademelon taken in Lamington National Park, Queensland. Could someone please craft a page for them? - See User:Gaz/Images - Thanks, Gaz 14:59, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC) minor edit by UtherSRG (talk) 13:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Should these be added to the classification? There are article for most of the fossil macropod genera now. -- Peta 02:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Macropods are endemic to continental Australia, not withstanding the introduction of some animals to the UK or New Zealand they are native only to the Australian mainland, continental island of New Guinea, continental island of Tasmania, and some other smaller continental isles. 122.106.228.67 ( talk) 22:33, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
I have read the revised taxonomy of Kear and Cooke 2001 and the extinct genera resemble little of what is here. Am looking to revise this part based on this and other references others can provide. Of corse peer reviewed that is. Enlil Ninlil ( talk) 06:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC) Here is the paper http://www.create.unsw.edu.au/research/files/!Kear%20&%20Cooke%20(2001)%20A%20review%20of%20macropodoid%20(Marsupialia)%20systematics%20with%20the%20inclusion%20of%20a%20new%20family.pdf Enlil Ninlil ( talk) 06:35, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
'Macropods' do not exist- The name of this page, including every single reference to 'macropod', should be changed to 'macropodid' (as in Macropodidae). For there to be such a thing as a 'macropod', an order specifically called 'Macropoda' must exist... but it doesn't!!! Ronny Corn ( talk) 12:22, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 11:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Macropod → Macropodidae — This article claims that "macropod" is the common name for the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos and wallabies and their closest relatives. However, "macropod" is also commonly used to mean the broader group Macropodiformes (or Macropoda, or Macropodoidea), which also includes the families Potoroidae and Hypsiprymnodontidae (the "rat-kangaroos") according to the classification currently used on Wikipedia. See, for example, the recent book Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos ( ISBN 9780643096622), or doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2000.00450.x, which lists a potoroo as a "macropod". On the other hand, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb00997.x mentions "macropods and potoroids", and thus excludes the latter from "macropods".
Evidently, "macropod" is an ambiguous term, and thus it should be avoided in accordance with one of the rules of our policy on article titles, WP:PRECISION. Some editors may prefer "macropod" because it is a "common" name, but the reason we use common names (for example, we use " tree-kangaroo" and not " Dendrolagus" as the article title) is that they are more generally recognizable, and I fail to see how "macropod" is much more generally recognizable than the more precise "Macropodidae". Ucucha 10:53, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem in this section. It says "There are two subfamilies in the Macropodidae family: the Sthenurinae ... is now represented by just a single species, ... the Banded Hare-wallaby", but the "banded hare wallaby" is actually listed under lagostrophinae. I presume there has been a reclassification, but the section needs to be consistent.
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What were the creatures like that kangaroos developed from? When did a big thumping tail develop? What were the nearest relatives in South America, Africa, Antarctica (Gondwanaland) like? MBG02 ( talk) 18:16, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
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The text of this article overlaps with the links to "Main Page", "Recent changes", etc., in the upper left corner. Can someone figure out how to fix that? Michael Hardy 18:44 Apr 23, 2003 (UTC)
I just uploaded some photos of the Red-necked Pademelon taken in Lamington National Park, Queensland. Could someone please craft a page for them? - See User:Gaz/Images - Thanks, Gaz 14:59, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC) minor edit by UtherSRG (talk) 13:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Should these be added to the classification? There are article for most of the fossil macropod genera now. -- Peta 02:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Macropods are endemic to continental Australia, not withstanding the introduction of some animals to the UK or New Zealand they are native only to the Australian mainland, continental island of New Guinea, continental island of Tasmania, and some other smaller continental isles. 122.106.228.67 ( talk) 22:33, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
I have read the revised taxonomy of Kear and Cooke 2001 and the extinct genera resemble little of what is here. Am looking to revise this part based on this and other references others can provide. Of corse peer reviewed that is. Enlil Ninlil ( talk) 06:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC) Here is the paper http://www.create.unsw.edu.au/research/files/!Kear%20&%20Cooke%20(2001)%20A%20review%20of%20macropodoid%20(Marsupialia)%20systematics%20with%20the%20inclusion%20of%20a%20new%20family.pdf Enlil Ninlil ( talk) 06:35, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
'Macropods' do not exist- The name of this page, including every single reference to 'macropod', should be changed to 'macropodid' (as in Macropodidae). For there to be such a thing as a 'macropod', an order specifically called 'Macropoda' must exist... but it doesn't!!! Ronny Corn ( talk) 12:22, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 11:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Macropod → Macropodidae — This article claims that "macropod" is the common name for the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos and wallabies and their closest relatives. However, "macropod" is also commonly used to mean the broader group Macropodiformes (or Macropoda, or Macropodoidea), which also includes the families Potoroidae and Hypsiprymnodontidae (the "rat-kangaroos") according to the classification currently used on Wikipedia. See, for example, the recent book Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos ( ISBN 9780643096622), or doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2000.00450.x, which lists a potoroo as a "macropod". On the other hand, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb00997.x mentions "macropods and potoroids", and thus excludes the latter from "macropods".
Evidently, "macropod" is an ambiguous term, and thus it should be avoided in accordance with one of the rules of our policy on article titles, WP:PRECISION. Some editors may prefer "macropod" because it is a "common" name, but the reason we use common names (for example, we use " tree-kangaroo" and not " Dendrolagus" as the article title) is that they are more generally recognizable, and I fail to see how "macropod" is much more generally recognizable than the more precise "Macropodidae". Ucucha 10:53, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem in this section. It says "There are two subfamilies in the Macropodidae family: the Sthenurinae ... is now represented by just a single species, ... the Banded Hare-wallaby", but the "banded hare wallaby" is actually listed under lagostrophinae. I presume there has been a reclassification, but the section needs to be consistent.
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What were the creatures like that kangaroos developed from? When did a big thumping tail develop? What were the nearest relatives in South America, Africa, Antarctica (Gondwanaland) like? MBG02 ( talk) 18:16, 5 January 2019 (UTC)