Meles
Meles meles, Boxhill, Surrey, England
Taxonavigation
Familia: Mustelidae
Subfamilia: Melinae
Genus: Meles
Species (4 + †1): M. anakuma – M. canescens – 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
English: European Badgers
français: Blaireau européen
lietuvių: Barsukas
latviešu: Eirāzijas āpši
português: Texugos-europeus
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