Order Proboscidea
Author
Don E. Wilson
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
367
367
book chapter
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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).