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  1. it.wikipedia.org › wiki › ElephantidaeElephantidae - Wikipedia

    Elephantidae (Gray, 1821) è una famiglia di mammiferi proboscidati che comprende tre specie viventi, comunemente note come elefanti: l'elefante asiatico (Elephas maximus), l'elefante africano di savana (Loxodonta africana) e l'elefante africano di foresta (Loxodonta cyclotis), precedentemente considerata una sottospecie di L. africana.

    • Elephantoidea

      Elephantoidea. Gray, 1821. Famiglie [1] † Anancidae. †...

    • Elephantida

      Elephantida. Elephantimorpha è un gruppo che contiene gli...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ElephantidaeElephantidae - Wikipedia

    Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ElephantElephant - Wikipedia

    Elephants belong to the family Elephantidae, the sole remaining family within the order Proboscidea. Their closest extant relatives are the sirenians (dugongs and manatees) and the hyraxes, with which they share the clade Paenungulata within the superorder Afrotheria. Elephants and sirenians are further grouped in the clade Tethytheria.

  4. For other uses, see African elephant (disambiguation). African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant ( L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ).