Meles leucurus ( Hodgson, 1847 )

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 73-75

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571251

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Meles leucurus ( Hodgson, 1847 )
status

 

Meles leucurus ( Hodgson, 1847) View in CoL View at ENA —Asian Badger

Taxidia leucurus Hodgson, 1847b p.763 ; Type locality- Tibet.

Meles melanogenys Allen and Andrews, 1913 p.433 View in CoL ; 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 View in CoL ; 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 View FIGURE 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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

Genus

Meles

Loc

Meles leucurus ( Hodgson, 1847 )

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L. 2018
2018
Loc

M. leucurus:

Jo 2012:
2012
Loc

M. meles melanogenys:

Yoon 1992:
Won 1967:
Won 1958:
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott 1951:
1951
Loc

M. meles: Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.271

Oh 2004:
Won & Smith 1999:
Han 1994:
Corbet 1978:
Won 1968:
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott 1951:
1951
Loc

M. meles amurensis:

Won 1968:
Tate 1947:
1947
Loc

Meles melanogenys

Kuroda 1938:
Kishida & Mori 1931:
Allen and Andrews 1913:
1913
Loc

Taxidia leucurus

Hodgson 1847:
1847
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