List of elephant species

The list of elephant species includes all known extant and extinct (†) species from the Elephantidae family.

References

  1. The Paleobiology Database Mammuthus columbi entry accessed on 2009-08-16
  2. GuangBiao Wei, SongMei Hu, KeFu Yu, YaMei Hou, Xin Li, ChangZhu Jin, Yuan Wang, JianXin Zhao, WenHua Wang (2010). "New materials of the steppe mammoth, Mammuthus trogontherii, with discussion on the origin and evolutionary patterns of mammoths". Science China Earth Sciences 53 (7): 956–963. doi:10.1007/s11430-010-4001-4.

Notes

  1. The elephant population in Vietnam and Laos is undergoing tests to determine if it is a fifth living subspecies.
  2. May be classified within the Palaeoloxodon genus.
  3. The subfamily Lophodontinae/Rhynchotheriinae, are placed by some authors within the gomphotheres, while others consider them as true Elephantidae.

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