Loxodonta africana

Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797). Handb. Naturgesch., 5th ed., p. 125. TYPE LOCALITY: Restricted to the Orange River, South Africa by Pohle (1926; see Allen, 1939). DISTRIBUTION: From S Mauritania, Mali, Chad, and Sudan south to N South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Threatened; IUCN - Vulnerable. SYNONYMS: albertensis, angammensis, angolensis, berbericus, capensis, cavendishi, cottoni, cyclotis, fransseni, hannibaldi, knochenhaueri, mocambicus, orleansi, oxyotis, peeli, pharaohensis, prima, priscus, pumilio, rothschildi, selousi, toxotis, typicus, zukowskyi. COMMENTS: See Laursen and Bekoff (1978, Mammalian Species, 92).

Published as part of Don E. Wilson, 1993, Order Proboscidea, pp. 367 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 367, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353124

Keywords

Elephantidae, Mammalia, Animalia, Biodiversity, Loxodonta africana, Chordata, Loxodonta, Taxonomy, Proboscidea

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