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SPECIES Meles meles

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 48.
Common Name:European Badger
Type Locality:"Europa inter rimas rupium et lapidum," restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Upsala" [Sweden].
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.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Reviewed by Petrov (1953) and Heptner et al. (1967). Synonyms allocated according to Heptner et al. (1967) and Abramov (2001).
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SUBSPECIES meles

SUBSPECIES arcalus

SUBSPECIES canescens

SUBSPECIES heptneri

SUBSPECIES marianensis

SUBSPECIES milleri

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SUBSPECIES severzovi

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