Melesium Rafinesque, 1815
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'universe et des corps organisés. Palermo: Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Mustelidae
- genus
- Meles
Name
- Homonyms
- Melesium Rafinesque, 1815
Bibliographic References
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1894 Regnum Animale?, Ed. 2 (M. J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for Nomenciatural purposes, with the conservation of the Mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(1), 64-71 (1998)
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'universe et des corps organisés. Palermo: Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp.
- SN2000/ICZN, 1998
- SN2000/ICZN, 1998
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- as per base taxon
- as per family (except Lontra, Enhydra)