Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758

Don E. Wilson, 1993, Order Proboscidea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 367-367 : 367

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scientific name	Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758
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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).

References

Shoshani, J., and J. F. Eisenberg. 1982. Elephas maximus. Mammalian Species, 182: 1 - 8.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Proboscidea
Family	Elephantidae
Genus	Elephas

Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758

Don E. Wilson 1993

1993

Elephas maximus

Linnaeus 1758: 33

1758

Specimens