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Eurasian Badgers
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Eurasian Badgers

Meles

Meles is a genus of badgers containing three living species, the Japanese badger (Meles anakuma), Asian badger (Meles leucurus), and European badger (Meles meles). In an older categorization, they were seen as a single species with three subspecies (Meles meles anakuma, Meles meles leucurus and Meles meles meles). There are also several extinct members of the genus.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

European Badger

speciesMeles meles

Asian Badger

speciesMeles leucurus

Japanese Badger

speciesMeles anakuma

Southwest Asian Badger

speciesMeles canescens

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 41840.