Meles meles
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Meles
Meles meles

description: <i>Meles meles</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:48. TYPE LOCALITY: "Europa inter rimas rupium et lapidum," restricted by Thomas (1911a) to " Upsala " [Sweden]. DISTRIBUTION: Scandinavia to S Siberia, south to Israel; Iraq; China, Korea, and Japan; and on Ireland, Britain, Crete, and Rhodes. SYNONYMS: <i>aberrans</i> Stroganov, 1962; <i>alba</i> Gmelin, 1788; <i>altaicus</i> Kastschenko, 1901; <i>amurensis</i> Schrenk, 1858; <i>anakuma</i> Temminck, 1844; <i>arcalus</i> Miller, 1907; <i>arenarius</i> Satunin, 1895; <i>blanfordi</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>britannicus</i> Satunin, 1906; <i>canescens</i> Blanford, 1875; <i>caninus</i> Billberg, 1827; <i>caucasicus</i> Ognev, 1926; <i>chinensis</i> Gray, 1868; <i>communis</i> Billberg, 1827; <i>danicus</i> Degerbol, 1933; <i>europaeus</i> Desmarest, 1816; <i>hanensis</i> Matschie, 1907; <i>heptneri</i> Ognev, 1931; <i>leptorhynchus</i> Milne-Edwards, 1867; <i>leucurus</i> Hodgson, 1847; <i>maculata</i> Gmelin, 1788; <i>marianensis</i> Graells, 1897; <i>melanogenys</i> J. A. Allen and Andrews, 1913; <i>minor</i> Satunin, 1905; <i>raddei</i> Kastschenko, 1901; <i>rhodius</i> Festa, 1914; <i>schrenkii</i> Nehring, 1891; <i>severzovi</i> Heptner, 1940; <i>sibiricus</i> Kastschenko, 1900; <i>siningensis</i> Matschie, 1907; <i>talassicus</i> Ognev, 1931; <i>tauricus Ognev,</i> 1926; <i>taxus</i> Boddaert, 1785; <i>tianschanensis</i> Hayninger-Huene, 1910; <i>tsingtanensis</i> Matschie, 1907; <i>typicus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1899; <i>vulgaris</i> Tiedemann, 1808. COMMENTS: Although Ognev (1931) considered <i>leptorhynchus</i> (including <i>amurensis)</i> a distinct species; most have considered <i>meles</i> and <i>leptorhynchus</i> conspecific (Allen, 1938; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Novikov, 1956; Stroganov, 1962; Long and Killingley, 1983). Baryshnikov and Potapova (1990) suggested that <i>M. meles</i> and <i>M. anakuma</i> are not conspecific.
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 314, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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