Meles Brisson, 1762
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Regnum Animale p.13
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Mustelidae
- genus
- Meles
Name
- Synonyms
- Eumeles Gray, 1865
- Meledes Kastschenko, 1925
- Meles Boddaert, 1785
- Melesium Rafinesque, 1815
- Melex Ameghino, 1884
- Homonyms
- Meles Brisson, 1762
- Meles Boddaert, 1785
- Common names
- Eurasian badgers in English
- Eurasian badgers in English
- Eurasian badgers in English
- badger in English
Bibliographic References
- Abramov, Alexei V., Andrey Yu. Puzachenko, 2013: The taxonomic status of badgers (Mammalia, Mustelidae) from Southwest Asia based on cranial morphometrics, with the redescription of Meles canescens. Zootaxa, vol. 3681, no. 1. 44-58.
- Burgin, Connor J., Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands, et al., 2020: null. Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1. Monotremata to Rodentia. 631.
- Hall, R. (2004) Däggdjur
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1998: OPINION 1894: Regnum Animale ..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles.... Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 55, part 1. 64-71.
- 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)
- Larivière, S., and A. P. Jennings / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds., 2009: Family Mustelidae (Weasels and relatives). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1: Carnivores. 564-656.
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Reg. Anim., 183. .
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
- Sato, Jun J. / Proulx, G., and E. Do Linh San, eds., 2016: Chapter 1: The Systematics and Taxonomy of the World's Badger Species - A Review. Badgers: systematics, biology, conservation and research techniques. 1-30.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
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