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Meles meles meles
Taxonomy
Meles taxus was named by Boddaert (1785). It is extant.
It was recombined as Meles meles meles by Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was recombined as Meles meles meles by Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1785 | Meles taxus Boddaert |
| 1927 | Meles taxus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 73 |
| 2005 | Meles meles meles Wilson and Reeder |
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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 meles Boddaert 1785
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | France (Lot) | Meles taxus (48981) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Meles taxus (191730) |