Taxidea Waterhouse, 1839 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838: 154 [1839].

TYPE SPECIES: Ursus Meles labradorius Gmelin, 1788 (= Ursus taxus Schreber, 1777), by original designation. (Melville and Smith, 1987).

SYNONYMS: Taxus Say, 1823 .