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Meles

genus of badgers
Taxon taxon Q1345042

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
taxon
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[6]
Different from
Borsuk[14]
Parent taxon
Melinae[3]
Taxon common name
Europäische Dachse, European Badgers, Blaireau européen, Barsukas, Eirāzijas āpši, Texugo-europeu[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Taxon name
Meles[4]
Taxon rank
genus[2]
Taxon synonym
Taxus[7]
Temporal range start
Pleistocene[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Meles ar غرير أوراسي cs Jezevec de Europäische Dachse fa رودک (سرده) fr Blaireau fr Blaireau eurasien he גירית id Meles (genus) ja アナグマ属 ko 오소리속 pl Borsuk pl Meles pt Texugo-europeu ru Барсуки uk Meles uk Борсук vi Meles (chi) zh 獾属
🔖 Identifiers · 35
OpenAlex ID
C2780423500
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Meles (Genus).jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Meles
BOLD Systems taxon ID
103250
Belgian Species List ID
53942
Catalogue of Life ID
5NNN
Dyntaxa ID
1001651
EPPO Code
1MLESG
Encyclopedia of Life ID
35940
Fauna Europaea ID
305310
Fauna Europaea New ID
78d76f6f-e699-4c51-ab06-98b7023806d5
Fossilworks taxon ID
41129
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Freebase ID
/m/04ggb8n
GBIF taxon ID
2433867
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
barsuki-d09504
INaturalist taxon ID
41840
IRMNG ID
1360027
ITIS TSN
726246, 621806
Interlingual Index ID
i48513
MSW ID
14001275
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780423500
NBIC scientific name ID
48077
NBN System Key
NBNSYS0000135009
NCBI taxonomy ID
9661
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/3844682A-B4D0-4838-B6C9-2BCE7D65D8DF
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007536789305171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
138997
Open Tree of Life ID
923115
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
41129
Topic's main category
Category:Meles
UBio ID
4236687
WoRMS-ID for taxa
1465480
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02450527-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/539a78ba-af01-4539-90da-f7b7f887dc14
ZooBank ID for name or act
7C419876-F950-42E6-8847-CAED6A876625

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 4
Eurasian badger, Japanese badger, Asian badger, Meles canescens
Different from 1
Borsuk
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Melinae
Taxon rank 1
genus
Topic's main category 1
Category:Meles
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Meles
← Different from 1
Borsuk
← Taxon known by this common name 1
badger
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Summary

Meles is a taxon[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . The Systematics and Taxonomy of the World's Badger Species – A Review. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 25d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ITIS TSN → 726246, 621806
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'avk', 'azb', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cv', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ ITIS TSN: 621806, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 12w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual Index ID → i48513
    WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 02450527-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Melinae
    Instance of → taxon
    Temporal range start → Pleistocene
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007536789305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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