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Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:33.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Zeylonae" [Sri Lanka].
DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Burma, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.
SYNONYMS: asiaticus, asurus, bengalensis, birmanicus, borneensis, ceylanicus, dakhunensis, dauntela, gigas, heterodactylus, hirsutus, indicus, isodactylus, mukna, rubridens, sinhaleyus, sondaicus, sumatranus, vilaliya, zeylanicus.
COMMENTS: See Shoshani and Eisenberg (1982, Mammalian Species, 182).
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson, 1993, Order Proboscidea, pp. 367 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 367, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353124
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Elephantidae
- Genus
- Elephas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Proboscidea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- maximus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wilson, 1993
References
- Shoshani, J., and J. F. Eisenberg. 1982. Elephas maximus. Mammalian Species, 182: 1 - 8.