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Loxodonta africana
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Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797). Handb. Naturgesch., 5th ed., p. 125.
TYPE LOCALITY: Restricted to the Orange River, South Africa by Pohle (1926; see Allen, 1939).
DISTRIBUTION: From S Mauritania, Mali, Chad, and Sudan south to N South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Threatened; IUCN - Vulnerable.
SYNONYMS: albertensis, angammensis, angolensis, berbericus, capensis, cavendishi, cottoni, cyclotis, fransseni, hannibaldi, knochenhaueri, mocambicus, orleansi, oxyotis, peeli, pharaohensis, prima, priscus, pumilio, rothschildi, selousi, toxotis, typicus, zukowskyi.
COMMENTS: See Laursen and Bekoff (1978, Mammalian Species, 92).
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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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353124 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/00289E02FFB6FFC3FFA75C030F68BF19 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/FC11E67AFFB6FFC3FF7B5A230AECB8D9 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205133894 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193460/taxon/FC11E67AFFB6FFC3FF7B5A230AECB8D9.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Blumenbach
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Proboscidea
- Family
- Elephantidae
- Genus
- Loxodonta
- Species
- africana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) sec. Wilson, 1993
References
- Pohle, H. 1926. Notizen uber africanische Elephanten. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 1: 58 - 64.
- Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
- Laursen, L., and M. Bekoff. 1978. Loxodonta africana. Mammalian Species, 92: 1 - 8.