Meles leucurus
Description
Meles leucurus (Hodgson, 1847) —Asian Badger
Taxidia leucurus Hodgson, 1847b p.763; Type locality- Tibet.
Meles melanogenys Allen and Andrews, 1913 p.433; Type locality- Musan, Korea; Kishida & Mori, 1931 p.380; Kuroda, 1938 p.25.
M. meles melanogenys: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.273; Won, 1958 p.437; Won, 1967 p.103; Yoon, 1992 p.109.
M. meles: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.271; Won, 1968 p.299; Corbet, 1978 p.175; Han, 1994 p.46; Won & Smith, 1999 p.18; Oh, 2004a p.180.
M. meles amurensis: Tate, 1947 p.154; Won, 1968 p.299.
M. leucurus: Jo et al., 2012 p.252.
Range: The Asian badger inhabits the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island (Fig. 46).
Remarks: Because the species was treated as M. meles for a long time, the name M. meles became frequently used in Korea. Based on DNA analysis (Tashima et al. 2011), the species complex of the Eurasian badger was divided into four lineages, Japanese (M. anakuma); western Eurasian (M. meles meles European subspecies); Caucasian (M. meles canascens Transcaucasian subspecies); and eastern Eurasian (M. leucurus). Abramov and Puzachenko (2006) delineated two subspecies, M. l. leucurus and M. l. amurensis, based on morphometric analysis; the Korean badger was regarded as M. l. amurensis. However, Koh et al. (2014b) rejected the species status of M. anakuma and considered M. leucurus a monotypic species.
Conservation status: Since traditional medicine began using gall bladders of this badger as a substitute for bear gall bladders, M. leucurus populations have decreased. Seoul, Ulsan, and Jeollanam Province designated this species as provincially protected since 2002. Meles leucurus in South Korea is listed ‘Near Threatened’ (NIBR 2012).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mustelidae
- Genus
- Meles
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hodgson
- Species
- leucurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Meles leucurus (Hodgson, 1847) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Hodgson, B. H. (1847 a) Description of the wild ass and wolf of Tibet, with illustrations. Calcutta Journal of Natural History, 7, 469 - 477.
- Hodgson, B. H. (1847 b) On the Tibetan badger, Taxidia leucurus, N. S. with plates. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 16, 763 - 771.
- Allen, J. A. & Andrews, R. C. (1913) Mammals collected in Korea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 32, 427 - 436.
- Kishida, K. & Mori, T. (1931) On the distribution of terrestrial mammals of Korea. Zoological Magazine, 43, 372 - 391. [in Japanese]
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Ellerman, J. R. & Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. (1951) Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
- Won, P. H. (1958) A hand list of Korean mammals. Bulletin of Kyung-Hee University, 1, 427 - 460.
- Won, P. H. (1967) Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna and flora of Korea. Fol. 7. Mammals. Ministry of Education, Seoul, 663 pp. [in Korean]
- Yoon, M. H. (1992) The wildlife of Korea. Daewonsa Publishing Company, Seoul, 142 pp. [in Korean]
- Won, H. K. (1968) The mammals of Korea. Institute of Science Press, Pyeongyang, 408 pp. [in Korean]
- Corbet, G. B. (1978) The mammals of the Palaearctic region: a taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Han, S. H. (1994) The checklist of Mammals in North Korea. Nature Conservation, 86, 44 - 50. [in Korean]
- Won, C. M. & Smith, K. G. (1999) History and current status of mammals of the Korean Peninsula. Mammal Review, 29, 3 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 2907.1999.00034. x
- Oh, H. S (2004 a) Order Carnivora. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 142 - 183 [in Korean]
- Tate, G. H. (1947) Mammals of Eastern Asia. The Macmillan Company, New York, 366 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 6397
- Jo, Y. S., Kim, T. W., Choi, B. J. & Oh, H. S. (2012) Current status of terrestrial mammals on Jeju Island. Journal of Species Research, 1, 249 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.12651 / JSR. 2012.1.2.249
- Tashima, S., Kaneko, Y., Anezaki, T., Baba, M., Yachimori, S., Abramov, A. V., Saveljev, A. P. & Masuda, R. (2011) Phylogeographic sympatry and isolation of the Eurasian badgers (Meles, Mustelidae, Carnivora): implications for an alternative analysis using maternally as well as paternally inherited genes. Zoological Science, 28, 293 - 303. https: // doi. org / 10.2108 / zsj. 28.293
- Abramov, A. V. & Puzachenko, A. Y. (2006) Geographical variability of skull and taxonomy of Eurasian badgers (Mustelidae, Meles). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 85, 641 - 655. [in Russian]
- Koh, H. S., Kryukov, A., Oh, J. G., Bayarkhagva, D., Yang, B. G., Ahn, N. H. & Bazarsad, D. (2014 b) Two sympatric phylogroups of the Asian badger Meles leucurus (Carnivora: Mammalia) identified by mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene sequences. Russian Journal of Theriology, 13, 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / rusjtheriol. 13.1.01