Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:48.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Europa inter rimas rupium et lapidum," restricted by Thomas (1911a) to " Upsala " [ Sweden] .
DISTRIBUTION: Scandinavia to S Siberia, south to Israel; Iraq; China, Korea, and Japan; and on Ireland, Britain, Crete, and Rhodes.
SYNONYMS: aberrans Stroganov, 1962 ; alba Gmelin, 1788 ; altaicus Kastschenko, 1901; amurensis Schrenk, 1858; anakuma Temminck, 1844 ; arcalus Miller, 1907 ; arenarius Satunin, 1895; blanfordi Matschie, 1902 ; britannicus Satunin, 1906; canescens Blanford, 1875 ; caninus Billberg, 1827; caucasicus Ognev, 1926; chinensis Gray, 1868 ; communis Billberg, 1827 ; danicus Degerbol, 1933; europaeus Desmarest, 1816 ; hanensis Matschie, 1907 ; heptneri Ognev, 1931; leptorhynchus Milne-Edwards, 1867 ; leucurus Hodgson, 1847 ; maculata Gmelin, 1788 ; marianensis Graells, 1897; melanogenys J. A. Allen and Andrews, 1913; minor Satunin, 1905 ; raddei Kastschenko, 1901; rhodius Festa, 1914; schrenkii Nehring, 1891 ; severzovi Heptner, 1940; sibiricus Kastschenko, 1900 ; siningensis Matschie, 1907 ; talassicus Ognev, 1931; tauricus Ognev, 1926; taxus Boddaert, 1785 ; tianschanensis Hayninger-Huene, 1910 ; tsingtanensis Matschie, 1907; typicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1899 ; vulgaris Tiedemann, 1808 .
COMMENTS: Although Ognev (1931) considered leptorhynchus (including amurensis) a distinct species; most have considered meles and leptorhynchus conspecific ( Allen, 1938; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Novikov, 1956; Stroganov, 1962; Long and Killingley, 1983). Baryshnikov and Potapova (1990) suggested that M. meles and M. anakuma are not conspecific.
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