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Meles meles (European badger)

Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Ursus meles Linnaeus p. 48
1911Meles meles Thomas p. 140
1968Meles meles Kurten p. 104
1998Meles meles International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature p. 65
2004Meles meles Marmi et al. p. 489
2007Meles meles Arribas and Garrido p. 552
2009Meles meles Baryshnikov p. 79

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—Pancarnivora
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Mustelida
familyMustelidaeBatsch 1788
subfamilyMelinaeBurmeister 1872
genusMeles
speciesmeles()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 [European badger]
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Meles meles meles Boddaert 1785
Meles meles canescens Blanford 1875 [Caucasian badger]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: semifossorialg
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: omnivoreg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-04 14:20:50
Modified: 2012-05-14 22:02:17
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Carroll 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma

Collections (42 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Romania Meles meles (33974)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774France (Lot) Meles taxus (48981)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Germany (Thüringen) Meles meles (45065)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117Greece (Chalkidiki) Meles meles (183123)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117Tajikistan Meles meles (34104)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117Belgium Meles meles (34127)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117Israel Meles meles (225664)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117China (Liaoyang) Meles meles (34667)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) Meles meles (36206)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Laos (Hua Pan) Meles meles (235746)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg) Meles meles (50259)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Türkiye (Central Anatolia) Meles meles (34368)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Germany (Bayern) Meles meles (50260)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Czechia Meles meles (36214)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Hungary Meles meles (35045 36706)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Verona) Meles meles (43645 43653 43655)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Vicenza) Meles meles (43666 43697)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Trieste) Meles meles (40808 43701)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Italy (Trieste) Meles meles (43702)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Monaco Meles taxus (191730)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Greece (Lakonia) Meles meles (32062 32082)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Germany (Brandenburg) Meles meles (198613)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain (Valencia) Meles meles (221412 221414)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117France (Poitou-Charentes) Meles meles (43632)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Georgia Meles meles (56735)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece Meles meles (203847)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece (Crete) Meles meles (183124)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117China (Heilongjiang) Meles meles (230983)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Portugal Meles meles (197768)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Poland Meles meles (63726)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation Meles meles (79548)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Bulgaria Meles meles (232847)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Netherlands Meles meles (122115)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0United Kingdom (Scotland) Meles meles (191169)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Portugal (Faro) Meles meles (275784)