Meles

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Ordo: Carnivora
Subordo: Caniformia
Familia: Mustelidae
Subfamila: Mustelinae
Genus: Meles
Species: M. anakuma - †M. iberica - M. leucurus - M. meles

[edit] Name

Meles Brisson, 1762

Type species: [Ursus] meles Linnaeus, 1758.

[edit] Synonyms

• Eumeles Gray, 1865
• Meledes Kastschenko, 1925
• Meles Boddaert, 1785
• Melesium Rafinesque, 1815
• Taxus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & G. Cuvier, 1795

[edit] References

• Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. T. Haak, Paris,: 13
• Meles on Mammal Species of the World.
  Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).
• Meles Brisson, 1762 Report on ITIS