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Taxon: Genus Loxodonta Vigors, 1827 - African elephant (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation [N.A. Vigors], 1827
Unavailable original name Cuvier, F.G. 1825. In É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F.G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 3 (52): 2.
Original name [Vigors, N.A.], 1827. Zoology J., III (IX), Jan: 140.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofLoxodontina (Subtribe) Osborn, 1918 Ref: Shoshani, (J.), 1997: 504. [new] [inferred]
Type, by original designationLoxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)

Synonyms

Vernacular nameLoxodonte (Genus) Cuvier, 1825 Ref: J. Shoshani, 2005: 91.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameAfrican elephant
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