Macropodinae is a subfamily of marsupial

Marsupial

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young. Close to 70% of the 334 extant species occur in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, with the remaining 100 found in the Americas, primarily in South America, but with thirteen in Central...

s in the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroo

Kangaroo

A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo. Kangaroos are endemic to the country...

s, wallabies

Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name.-Overview:...

, and related species. The subfamily includes about ten genera and at least 51 species. It includes all living members of the Macropodidae except for the Banded Hare-wallaby

Banded Hare-wallaby

The Banded Hare-wallaby or Mernine is a marsupial that is currently found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. A small population has recently been established on Faure Island and it appears to have been successful...

 (Lagostrophus fasciatus), the only surviving member of the subfamily Sthenurinae

Sthenurinae

Sthenurinae is a sub-family within the marsupial family Macropodidae, meaning 'short faced kangaroos'. No members of this subfamily remain extant today, with all becoming extinct by the late Pleistocene. Procoptodon goliah, the largest macropodid known to have existed, was a sthenurine...

. Wilson, DE, Reeder, DM Mammal Species of the World. Subfamily Macropodinae. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, 2005.

Macropodinae includes the following living genera:

• Dendrolagus (tree-kangaroos)(12 species)
• Dorcopsis
  Dorcopsis (genus)
  Dorcopsis is a genus of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It contains the following species:* Black Dorcopsis * White-striped Dorcopsis * Gray Dorcopsis...
  
  (greater dorcopsises)(4 species)
• Dorcopsulus
  Dorcopsulus
  Dorcopsulus is a genus of marsupial in the Macropodidae family. It contains the following species:* Macleay's Dorcopsis * Small Dorcopsis...
  
  (lesser dorcopsises)(2 species)
• Lagorchestes
  Lagorchestes
  Lagorchestes is a genus containing all but one of the species referred to as hare-wallabies. It has four species, two of which are extinct:* ††Lake Mackay Hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus...
  
  (hare-wallabies)(4 species, 2 extant)
• Macropus
  Macropus
  Macropus is a marsupial genus that belongs to the family Macropodidae, it has 14 species which are further divided into 3 subgenera. The genus includes all terrestrial kangaroos, wallaroos and several species of wallaby. The term itself is derived from the Ancient Greek makros "long" and pous...
  
  (kangaroos, wallaroos, and wallabies))(16 species, 13 extant)
• Onychogalea (nail-tail wallabies))(3 species, 2 extant)
• Petrogale (rock-wallabies)(16 species)
• Setonix (quokka)
• Thylogale (pademelons)(7 species)
• Wallabia (swamp wallaby)

Different common names are used for macropodines, including "wallaby" and "kangaroo", with the distinction sometimes based exclusively on size. In addition to the well-known kangaroos, the subfamily also includes other specialized groups, such as the arboreal tree-kangaroos (Dendrolagus), which have body masses between 4 and 13 kg, and a relatively long prehensile tail. I. Hume, P. Jarman, M. Renfree and P. Temple-Smith. Fauna of Australia (Walton Richardson, eds.). Vol 1B. 29. Macropodidae. pp. 55-6. 1989.