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Elephas maxitnus Linnaeus 1758

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Elephas maxitnus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:33.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka (=Ceylon) (domesticated stock).

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India to Indochina; Malaysia; Sumatra; N. Borneo.

COMMENT: For discussion of subspecific variation see Deraniyagala, 1955, Ceylon Nat. Mus. Publ., Colombo, and Chasen, 1940. Bornean elephants are believed to be feral descendants of a stock introduced in the 1750's; see de Silva, 1968, Sabah Soc. J., 3(4):169— 181, and Olivier, 1978, Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge. According to Chasen, 1940, these elephants resemble the continental form rather than the one from Sumatra. See also Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1966:336; Corbet, 1978:191- 192.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301415001001001001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Proboscidea, pp. 307 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 307, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353019

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Proboscidea
Family
Elephantidae
Genus
Elephas
Species
maxitnus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Elephas maxitnus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Deraniyagala, P. E. P. 1955. Some extinct elephants, their relatives and the two living species. Ceylon National Museums Administration, Colombo, 161 pp.
  • Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1966. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. Second ed. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.