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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.

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