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Taxidea taxus (American badger)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

Taxonomy
Ursus taxus was named by Schreber (1778). It is extant. It is the type species of Taxidea.

It was recombined as Taxidea taxus by Rhoads (1894), Hay (1902), Schultz and Howard (1935), Hall (1936), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Mead and Mead (1989) and Marmi et al. (2004).

Subspecies

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1778Ursus taxus Schreber
1865Taxidea americana Gray
1877Taxidea sulcata Cope p. 227
1894Taxidea taxus Rhoads
1902Taxidea sulcata Hay p. 765
1902Taxidea taxus Hay p. 765
1921Taxidea robusta Hay
1935Taxidea taxus Schultz and Howard p. 283
1936Taxidea taxus Hall
1980Taxidea taxus Kurten and Anderson p. 157
1989Taxidea taxus Mead and Mead p. 151
2004Taxidea taxus Marmi et al. p. 489 figs. Fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
Mustelida
familyMustelidaeFischer 1817
subfamilyTaxidiinae(Pocock 1920)
genusTaxideaWaterhouse 1839
speciestaxus(Schreber 1778)

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.

Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 [American badger]
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Taxidea taxus marylandica Gidley and Gazin 1933
Invalid names: Taxidea americana Gray 1865 [synonym], Taxidea robusta Hay 1921 [synonym], Taxidea sulcata Cope 1877 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available