Meles

Meles meles, Boxhill, Surrey, England

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Musteloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Grandordo: Ferungulata Mirordo: Ferae Cladus: Pancarnivora Cladus: Carnivoramorpha Cladus: Carnivoraformes Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Caniformia Infraordo: Arctoidea Superfamilia: Musteloidea

Familia: Mustelidae
Subfamilia: Melinae
Genus: Meles
Species (3 + †1): M. anakuma – M. leucurus – M. meles – †M. iberica

Name

Meles Brisson, 1762: 183 [conserved name]

• Type species: Ursus meles Linnaeus, 1758, by designation under the Plenary Powers (1998: 65).
• Gender: masculine.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1894 (1998: 65).

Synonyms

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

References

Primary references

• Brisson, M.J. 1762. Regnum animale in classes IX. Distributum, Sive, Synopsis Methodica, Sistens generalem Animalium distributionem in Classes IX, & duarum primarum Classium, Quadrupedum scilicet & Cetaceorum, particularem divisionem in Ordines, Sectiones, Genera & Species. Cum brevi cujusque Speciei Descriptione, Cicationibus Auctorum de iis tractantium, Nominibus eis ab ipsis & Nationibus impositis, Nominibusque vulgaribus. Theodorum Haak: Lugduni Batavorum. 7 + 296 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• 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, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(1): 64–71. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Abramov, A.V. & Puzachenko, A.Y. 2013. The taxonomic status of badgers (Mammalia, Mustelidae) from southwest Asia based on cranial morphometrics, with the redescription of Meles canescens. Zootaxa 3681(1): 44–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.1.2 Reference page. 
• 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

Links

• Meles in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Meles – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Europäische Dachse
English: European Badgers
français: Blaireau européen
lietuvių: Barsukas
latviešu: Eirāzijas āpši
português: Texugos-europeus

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