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The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to Europe and West Asia and parts of Central Asia.It is classified as least concern on the IUCN Red List, as it has a wide range and a large, stable population size which is thought to be increasing in some regions.
The genus Meles was erected by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1762 after Carl Linnaeus had described the Eurasian badger Meles meles in 1758. This animal had a very extensive range over most of temperate Europe and Asia and there has been much discussion as to whether it is a single or three distinct species.
The word "badger", originally applied to the European badger (Meles meles), comes from earlier bageard (16th century), [5] presumably referring to the white mark borne like a badge on its forehead. [6] Similarly, a now archaic synonym was bauson 'badger' (1375), a variant of bausond 'striped, piebald', from Old French bausant, baucent 'id.'. [7]
Sable, Martes zibellina NA (western Ural Mountains, European Russia) Caucasian badger, Meles canescens (Crete, Rhodes) Asian badger, Meles leucurus [2] LC (Russia, Kazakhstan) European badger, Meles meles LC; Stoat, Mustela erminea LC; Steppe polecat, Mustela eversmanii LC; European mink, Mustela lutreola CR (eastern Europe, Spain, France)
Habitats vary widely as well, from the arboreal marten to the fossorial European badger to the marine sea otter. Population sizes are largely unknown, though two species, the sea mink and Japanese otter , were hunted to extinction in 1894 and 1979, respectively, and several other species are endangered .
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Rhodes badger (M. c. rhodius) Festa, 1914 [8] Rhodes: Fergana badger (M. c. severzovi) Heptner, 1940 [9] bokharensis (Petrov,1953) A small subspecies with a relatively pure, silvery-grey back with no yellow sheen. The head stripes are wide and occupy the whole ear. Its skull exhibits several features which are transitory between the Asian and ...