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Loxodonta cyclotis (African forest elephant)
Taxonomy
Elephas capensis cyclotis was named by Matschie (1900) [also referred to as Elephas cyclotis in the same paper (see Allen 1936)]. It is extant. Its type locality is Yaunde region, which is in a Holocene terrestrial horizon in Cameroon.
It was recombined as Elephas cyclotis by Matschie (1900); it was recombined as Elephas africanus cyclotis by Lydekker (1907); it was recombined as Loxodonta africana cyclotis by Allen and Coolidge (1930); it was recombined as Loxodonta cyclotis by Frade (1931), Allen (1936), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Rohland et al. (2010).
It was recombined as Elephas cyclotis by Matschie (1900); it was recombined as Elephas africanus cyclotis by Lydekker (1907); it was recombined as Loxodonta africana cyclotis by Allen and Coolidge (1930); it was recombined as Loxodonta cyclotis by Frade (1931), Allen (1936), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Rohland et al. (2010).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1900 | Elephas cyclotis Matschie |
| 1906 | Elephas africanus pumilio Noack |
| 1907 | Elephas africanus albertensis Lydekker |
| 1907 | Elephas africanus cyclotis Lydekker p. 390 |
| 1907 | Elephas africanus albertensis Lydekker p. 1089 |
| 1908 | Elephas africanus cottoni Lydekker |
| 1914 | Elephas africanus fransseni Schouteden |
| 1930 | Loxodonta africana cyclotis Allen and Coolidge p. 616 |
| 1931 | Loxodonta cyclotis Frade p. 135 |
| 1936 | Loxodonta cyclotis Allen p. 41 |
| 2005 | Loxodonta cyclotis Shoshani and Tassy p. 7 |
| 2005 | Loxodonta cyclotis Wilson and Reeder |
| 2010 | Loxodonta cyclotis Rohland et al. p. 1 |
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Loxodonta cyclotis Matschie 1900 [African forest elephant]
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Invalid names: Elephas africanus albertensis Lydekker 1907 [synonym], Elephas africanus cottoni Lydekker 1908 [synonym], Elephas africanus fransseni Schouteden 1914 [synonym]
Elephas africanus pumilio Noack 1906
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||