Order Proboscidea Owen, 1859 - elephants Family Elephantidae Gray, 1821 - elephants Genus Loxodonta Vigors, 1827 - African elephant 1 Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) - African bush elephant 2 †Loxodonta adaurora Maglio, 1970 see Mammuthus subplanifrons (H.F. Osborn, 1928) 3 †Loxodonta exoptata (Dietrich, 1941)