Meles Brisson, 1762

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques. 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, citationibus auctorum de iis tractantium, nominibus eis ab ipsis & nationibus impositis, nominibusque vulgaribus. Lugduni Batavorum. (Haak) Editio altera auctior: + 1-296.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Mammalia

order

Carnivora

family

Mustelidae

genus

Meles

Name

Synonyms

Eumeles Gray, 1865

Meledes Kastschenko, 1925

Meles Boddaert, 1785

Melesium Rafinesque, 1815

Melex Ameghino, 1884

Taxus Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795

Homonyms

Meles Brisson, 1762

Meles Boddaert, 1785

Common names

badger in English

Bibliographic References

1. Abramov, Alexei V., Andrey Yu. Puzachenko, 2013: The taxonomic status of badgers (Mammalia, Mustelidae) from Southwest Asia based on cranial morphometrics, with the redescription of Meles canescens. Zootaxa, vol. 3681, no. 1. 44-58.
2. Butler,J. M.,Roper,T. J. (1996) Ectoparasites and sett use in European badgers http://phthiraptera.info/node/40239
3. Hall, R. (2004) Däggdjur
4. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1894 Regnum Animale?, Ed. 2 (M. J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for Nomenciatural 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 (1998)
5. Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
6. Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
7. Reg. Anim., 183. .
8. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
9. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
10. Sato, Jun J. / Proulx, G., and E. Do Linh San, eds., 2016: Chapter 1: The Systematics and Taxonomy of the World's Badger Species - A Review. Badgers: systematics, biology, conservation and research techniques. 1-30.
11. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
12. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
13. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
14. as per family (except Lontra, Enhydra)