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Elephas (elephant)
Taxonomy
Elephas was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Elephantidae, Elephantinae, Elephantini.
It was assigned to Bruta by Linnaeus (1758); to Proboscidia by Owen (1848); to Pachydermata by Leidy (1860); to Elephantina by Gray (1825), Nordmann (1860); to Proboscidea by Leidy (1873); to Elephantina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Elephantinae by Maglio (1970), Maglio (1973), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Rogaev et al. (2006); to Elephantidae by Lydekker (1880), Cope (1889), Hay (1902), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1988), Kalb and Frohelich (1995), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Barriel et al. (1999), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Christiansen (2007); and to Elephantini by Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Rohland et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Bruta by Linnaeus (1758); to Proboscidia by Owen (1848); to Pachydermata by Leidy (1860); to Elephantina by Gray (1825), Nordmann (1860); to Proboscidea by Leidy (1873); to Elephantina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Elephantinae by Maglio (1970), Maglio (1973), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Rogaev et al. (2006); to Elephantidae by Lydekker (1880), Cope (1889), Hay (1902), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1988), Kalb and Frohelich (1995), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Barriel et al. (1999), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Christiansen (2007); and to Elephantini by Shoshani and Tassy (2005), Rohland et al. (2010).
Species
E. (Euelephas), E. (Loxodon), E. (Palaeoloxodon) cephallonicus, E. beyeri, E. clifti (syn. Stegodon sinensis), E. ekorensis, E. falconeri, E. maximus (syn. E. gigas, E. asiaticus), E. melitensis, E. moghrebiensis, E. nawataensis, E. planifrons, E. priscus, Loxodonta (Palaeoloxodon) tokunagai, Mastodon elephantoides, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi (syn. E. chaniensis), Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi, Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Palaeoloxodon recki, Palaeoloxodon tiliensis, Palaeoloxodon xylophagou
Species lacking formal opinion data