Elephantidae

Loxodonta africanamas in desertoSerengeti

Animalia—Chordata

Subdivisiones:Genera

Synonyma

* ElephasidaeLesson, 1842

Treselephantidarumspecieshodie vivunt:Elephas maximus,Loxodonta cyclotis,etLoxodonta africana.Omnes aliaespeciesetgeneraelephantidarum suntexstincta,aliqua post ultimamaetatem glacialem:mammuthinani fortasse usque ad2000 a.C.n.exstabant.^[1]Omnes elephantidae cum aliisanimalibusquaecutemcrassum habent olim in ordinePachydermatisnumerabantur, nunc autem invalido.

Maximaanimalia mammiferaterrestria sunt elephanti. Maximus elephas de quo scimus inAngoliasclopetatus est anno1974;circa 12 000chiliogrammatapondere fuit.

Notae

↑S. L. Vartanyan, V. E. Garutt†, et A. V. Sher, "Holocene dwarf mammoths from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic,"Nature362, 337–340 (25 Martii 1993)Nature.

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Vicimedia Communiaplura habent quae adElephantidaespectant.

Vide"Elephantidae"apudVicispecies.