Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Alternative combination: Ursus meles
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Meles according to International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1998
See also Arribas and Garrido 2007, Baryshnikov 2009, Kurten 1968, Linnaeus 1758, Marmi et al. 2004 and Thomas 1911
Sister taxa: Meles anakuma, Meles canescens, Meles iberica, Meles leucurus, Meles taxipater, Meles taxus, Meles teilhardi, Meles thorali
Ecology: semifossorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Bulgaria (1), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (5), Greece (5), Hungary (2), Israel (1), Italy (8), Laos (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 40 collections each including a single occurrence
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