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SPECIES Meles leucurus

Author:Hodgson, 1847.
Citation:J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal., 16: 763.
Common Name:Asian Badger
Type Locality:"Lhasa, Tibet," [China].
Distribution:China, Kazakhstan, North and South Korea, Russia (From Volga River through Siberia).
Comments:Reviewed by Petrov (1953), Heptner et al. (1967), and Abramov (2001). Synonyms allocated according to Heptner et al. (1967) and Abramov (2001).
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SUBSPECIES leucurus

SUBSPECIES amurensis

SUBSPECIES arenarius

SUBSPECIES sibiricus

SUBSPECIES tianschanensis

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