macropod lidæ, macropIde

pl. [Mod. Lat. macrop ( us ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] 1. Zoology: (1) A family of Marsupials, section Phytophaga, or in Owen's cla ification Diprododontia. There are six incisors in the upper jaw, and two in the lower; the canines in the upper jaw are small and wanting in the lower one; the molars are five on each side above and below. The anterior feet, which are small, have five toes, each armed with a claw; the hinder ones, which are very large, power ful, and well adapted for leaping, have but four, the inner one, or great toe, being absent. Found Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Genera: Macropus (Kangaroo), Dendrolagus (Tree-kangaroo), Hypsiprymnus (Kangaroo-rat), . (2) The first family of Milne-Edwards' Oxyrhynchi. They have very long feet, and are called in consequence Sea-spiders and Spider-crabs. They internet Call ethals Leptopodidae Tertia tor ulu i Macropiare found in the foute 2. Palæont .: Huge Post other genera. They were found in o iferous brec. cias in the Wellington Valley, about 210 miles west of Sydney, on the river Bell, one of the principal sources of the Macquarie, and on the Macquarie itself. Kangaroos seem to have been limited to Australia before the human period began. The name of the Rhætic genus Hypsiprymnopsis of (q. v.). Macropod i a. Prof. Boyd-Dawkins suggests a relation to Hypsiprymnus, but Prof. Owen considers it to be a Micro les tes (q.v.).