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 193460 10.5281/zenodo.7353124 3ade26b4-62a5-43fb-998e-991bc7425fe4 1-56098-217-9 7353124 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).