Meles

Meles

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caniformia
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Theria Infraclassis: Eutheria Magnordo: Epitheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Caniformia

Familia: Mustelidae
Subfamila: Mustelinae
Genus: Meles
Species: M. anakuma – M. leucurus – M. meles – †M. iberica

Name

Meles Brisson, 1762

Type species: [Ursus] meles Linnaeus, 1758.

Synonyms

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

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
• Del Cerro, I.; Marmi, J.; Ferrando, A.; Chashchin, P.; Taberlet, P.; Bosch, M. 2010: Nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies provide evidence for four species of Eurasian badgers (Carnivora). Zoologica scripta, 39: 415–425. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00436.x
• Meles in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, D. E. & Reeder, D. M. (eds.) (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0801882214
• Meles Brisson, 1762 Report on ITIS

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