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Taxidea Waterhouse 1839

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Taxidea Waterhouse, 1839. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838: 154 [1839].

TYPE SPECIES: Ursus Meles labradorius Gmelin, 1788 (= Ursus taxus Schreber, 1777), by original designation. (Melville and Smith, 1987).

SYNONYMS: Taxus Say, 1823.

Notes

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 325, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Scientific name authorship
Waterhouse
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Taxidea
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Taxidea Waterhouse, 1839 sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Schreber, J. C. D. 1777. Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen 1776 - 1778. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 3: 377 - 440, pls. 104 B, 107 Aa, 109 B, 110 B, 115 B, 125 B, 127 B, 136, 146 A.
  • Melville, R. V., and J. D. D. Smith (eds.). 1987. Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 366 pp.