Meles meles (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 611

Meles meles (Linnaeus 1758)

[Ursus] meles Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 48 .

Type Locality: "Europa inter rimas rupium et lapidum," restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to " Upsala " [ Sweden] .

Vernacular Names: European Badger.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. meles Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. arcalus Miller 1907

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. canescens Blanford 1875

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. heptneri Ognev 1931

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. marianensis Graells 1897

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. milleri Baryshnikov, Puzachenko and Abramov 2003

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. rhodius Festa 1914

Subspecies Meles meles subsp. severzovi Heptner 1940

Distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China (Xinjiang), Crete, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (eastward up to Volga River), Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Petrov (1953) and Heptner et al. (1967). Synonyms allocated according to Heptner et al. (1967) and Abramov (2001).