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Meles  Brisson, 1762
Taxonomic Serial No.: 726246

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Meles Boddaert, 1785
  
  Common Name(s): Eurasian badgers [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2018   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderCarnivora Bowdich, 1821 – cachorro do mato, carnívoro, gato do mato, lontra, carnivores, carnivores  
                                  SuborderCaniformia Kretzoi, 1938 – dog-like carnivores  
                                     FamilyMustelidae G. Fischer von Waldheim, 1817 – mustelids  
                                        SubfamilyMelinae Bonaparte, 1838 – Eurasian badgers, hog-badgers  
                                           GenusMeles Brisson, 1762 – Eurasian badgers  
    Direct Children:  
                                              SpeciesMeles anakuma Temminck, 1844 – Japanese Badger 
                                              SpeciesMeles canescens Blanford, 1875  
                                              SpeciesMeles leucurus (Hodgson, 1847) – Asian Badger 
                                              SpeciesMeles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) – European Badger 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Abramov, Alexei V., Andrey Yu. Puzachenko   
  Publication Date: 2013   
  Article/Chapter Title: The taxonomic status of badgers (Mammalia, Mustelidae) from Southwest Asia based on cranial morphometrics, with the redescription of Meles canescens   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 3681, no. 1   
  Page(s): 44-58   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5334   
  Notes: doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.1.2   
  Reference for: Meles   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: 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...   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 55, part 1   
  Page(s): 64-71   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0007-5167   
  Notes: Available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12441432   
  Reference for: Meles   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Sato, Jun J. / Proulx, G., and E. Do Linh San, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 1: The Systematics and Taxonomy of the World's Badger Species - A Review   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Badgers: systematics, biology, conservation and research techniques   
  Page(s): 1-30   
  Publisher: Alpha Wildlife Publications   
  Publication Place: Alberta, Canada   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9809598-02   
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  Reference for: Meles   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2005   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Meles Brisson, 1762 has been ruled as available, despite being published in the unavailable work Brisson (1762); see Opinion 1894 (ICZN 1998)  
 

 

    


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