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Stegodon
Taxonomy
Stegodon was named by Falconer (1857).
It was reranked as Elephas (Stegodon) by Lydekker (1880).
It was assigned to Elephas by Lydekker (1880); to Elephantidae by Abel (1919), Kalb and Frohelich (1995); to Stegodontinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Stegodontidae by Carroll (1988), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Sanders (1999), Shoshani and Tassy (2005).
It was reranked as Elephas (Stegodon) by Lydekker (1880).
It was assigned to Elephas by Lydekker (1880); to Elephantidae by Abel (1919), Kalb and Frohelich (1995); to Stegodontinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Stegodontidae by Carroll (1988), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Sanders (1999), Shoshani and Tassy (2005).
Species
S. aurorae (syn. S. akashiensis), S. bombifrons, S. elephantoides, S. florensis, S. ganesa, S. hypsilophus, S. insignis (syn. S. orientalis), S. kaisensis, S. luzonensis, S. mediterraneus, S. miensis (syn. S. shinshuensis), S. mindanensis, S. namadicus, S. preorientalis, S. rathiansis, S. sompoensis, S. sondaari, S. sumbaensis, S. syrticus, S. trigonocephalus (syn. S. javanoganesa), S. yuanmouensis, S. zdanskyi, S. zhaotongensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1857 | Stegodon Falconer |
| 1880 | Elephas (Stegodon) Lydekker |
| 1919 | Stegodon Abel p. 828 |
| 1988 | Stegodon Carroll |
| 1995 | Stegodon Kalb and Frohelich p. 732 |
| 1996 | Stegodon Shoshani and Tassy p. 352 |
| 1997 | Stegodon McKenna and Bell p. 503 |
| 1999 | Stegodon Sanders p. 793 |
| 2005 | Stegodon Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Stegodon Falconer 1857
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†Stegodon bombifrons Falconer 1847
†Stegodon elephantoides Clift 1829
†Stegodon florensis Hooijer 1957
†Stegodon ganesa Falconer and Cautley 1875
†Stegodon hypsilophus Hooijer 1954
†Stegodon kaisensis Hopwood 1939
†Stegodon luzonensis von Koenigswald 1956
†Stegodon mediterraneus Hooijer 1960
†Stegodon miensis Matsumoto 1941
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Invalid names: Stegodon shinshuensis Sawamura et al. 1979 [synonym]
†Stegodon mindanensis Naumann 1890
†Stegodon namadicus Biswas and Dassarma 1981
†Stegodon preorientalis Young 1938
†Stegodon rathiansis Sawar et al. 1985
†Stegodon sompoensis Hooijer 1964
†Stegodon sondaari van den Bergh 1999
†Stegodon sumbaensis Sartono 1979
†Stegodon syrticus Petrocchi 1943
†Stegodon trigonocephalus Martin 1887
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Invalid names: Stegodon javanoganesa Dubois 1908 [synonym]
†Stegodon trigonocephalus ngandongensis Osborn 1936
†Stegodon yuanmouensis You et al. 1978
†Stegodon zdanskyi Hopwood 1935
†Stegodon zhaotongensis Chow and Zhai 1962
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available