Meles canescens

Blanford, 1875

Caucasian Badger

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Arctoidea
Superfamily : Musteloidea
Family : Mustelidae
Subfamily : Melinae
Genus : Meles

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Blanford, W.T. 1875-11-01. Descriptions of new Mammalia from Persia and Balúchistan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)16(95):309-313.

Original name as described

Meles canescens

Type material

ZSI 16538

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Abadah, Iran.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · Georgia · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Turkey · Greece · Lebanon · Israel · Palestine · Jordan · Egypt · Syria · Iraq · Iran · Turkmenistan · Tajikistan? · Kyrgyzstan · Afghanistan?

Taxonomy notes

split from M. meles

Taxonomy notes citation

Abramov, A. V., & Puzachenko, A. Y. (2013). The taxonomic status of badgers (Mammalia, Mustelidae) from Southwest Asia based on cranial morphometrics, with the redescription of Meles canescens. Zootaxa, 3681(1), 044-058.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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