Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Proboscidea - (Family) Elephantidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Mammalia (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.
Placentalia (Clade) Owen 1837 [O'Leary, Allard, Novacek, Meng & Gatesy 2004]		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 491.
Theria (Clade) Parker & Haswell 1897 [McKenna 1975]		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Eutheria (Clade) Gill 1872 [O'Leary, Allard, Novacek, Meng & Gatesy 2004]		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.
Mammaliaformes (Clade) Rowe 1988		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Metatheria (Clade) Huxley 1880 [O'Leary, Allard, Novacek, Meng & Gatesy 2004]		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.
Prototheria (Clade) Gill 1872 [O'Leary, Allard, Novacek, Meng & Gatesy 2004]		Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.

Original position

Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Elephas (Subgenus) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Elephas (Elephas) (Subgenus) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: 19 Apr 2007

Alternative positions

Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: N.E. Todd, 2010: table 1.

Historical positions

Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: J.A. van Essen, 2011: viii, 33.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: N.E. Todd, 2010: 76, table 1, fig. 7.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: J. Shoshani, 2005: 90.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: M.P. Ferretti, 2003: 384.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: N. Poulakakis et al., 2002: 364, 366, 371, fig. 1.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: M.G. Thomas et al., 2000: 2493.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: D.E. Wilson, 1993: 367.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 123.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1055.
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Elephas (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 33. [new name]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	3ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[3ss]
2010	N.E. Todd: table 1	[3ss]
2005	J. Shoshani	[3ss]