Elephantidae

Elephantidae; Temporal range:
	A male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in the wild at Bandipur National Park in India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Superfamily:	Elephantoidea
Family:	Elephantidae; Gray, 1821
Type genus
	Elephas; Linnaeus, 1758
Genera
	Elephas Linnaeus, 1758 ; Loxodonta Anonymous, 1827 ; †Mammuthus Brookes, 1828 ; †Palaeoloxodon Matsumoto, 1925 ; †Phanagoroloxodon Garutt, 1957 ; †Primelephas Maglio, 1970 ; †Selenetherium Mackaye, Brunet & Tassy, 2005 ; †Stegoloxodon Kretzoi, 1950 ; †Stegodibelodon Coppens, 1972 ; †Stegotetrabelodon Petrocchi, 1941 ;
Synonyms
	Elephasidae Lesson, 1842;

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. Only two genera, Loxodonta (African elephants) and Elephas (Asian elephants), are living.

The family was first described by John Edward Gray in 1821,^[5] and later assigned to taxonomic ranks within the order Proboscidea. Elephantidae has been revised by various authors to include or exclude other extinct proboscidean genera.

^ H. T. Mackaye, M. Brunet, and P. Tassy. 2005. Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: un nouveau Proboscidea (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien. Geobios 38(6):765-777
^ Kalb, J. E.; & Froehlich, D. J. (1995). "Interrelationships of Late Neogene Elephantoids: New evidence from the Middle Awash Valley, Afar, Ethiopia". Geobios. 28 (6): 727–736. Bibcode:1995Geobi..28..727K. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(95)80068-9.
^ Shoshani, J.; Ferretti, M.P.; Lister, A.M.; Agenbroad, L.D.; Saegusa, H.; Mol, D.; Takahashi, K. (2007). "Relationships within the Elephantinae using hyoid characters". Quaternary International. 169–170: 174–185. Bibcode:2007QuInt.169..174S. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.003.
^ Maglio, Vincent J. (1973). "Origin and Evolution of the Elephantidae". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 63 (3): 16. doi:10.2307/1006229. JSTOR 1006229.
^ Gray, John Edward (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". London Medical Repository. 15: 297–310.

[1] H. T. Mackaye, M. Brunet, and P. Tassy. 2005. Selenetherium kolleensis nov. gen. nov. sp.: un nouveau Proboscidea (Mammalia) dans le Pliocène tchadien. Geobios 38(6):765-777

[2] Kalb, J. E.; & Froehlich, D. J. (1995). "Interrelationships of Late Neogene Elephantoids: New evidence from the Middle Awash Valley, Afar, Ethiopia". Geobios. 28 (6): 727–736. Bibcode:1995Geobi..28..727K. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(95)80068-9.

[Shoshani_etal_2007-3] Shoshani, J.; Ferretti, M.P.; Lister, A.M.; Agenbroad, L.D.; Saegusa, H.; Mol, D.; Takahashi, K. (2007). "Relationships within the Elephantinae using hyoid characters". Quaternary International. 169–170: 174–185. Bibcode:2007QuInt.169..174S. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.003.

[4] Maglio, Vincent J. (1973). "Origin and Evolution of the Elephantidae". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 63 (3): 16. doi:10.2307/1006229. JSTOR 1006229.

[5] Gray, John Edward (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". London Medical Repository. 15: 297–310.

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Elephantidae Temporal range:

A male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in the wild at Bandipur National Park in India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Superfamily:	Elephantoidea
Family:	Elephantidae Gray, 1821
Type genus
Elephas Linnaeus, 1758
Genera^[3]
Elephas Linnaeus, 1758 Loxodonta Anonymous, 1827 †Mammuthus Brookes, 1828 †Palaeoloxodon Matsumoto, 1925 †Phanagoroloxodon Garutt, 1957 †Primelephas Maglio, 1970 †Selenetherium Mackaye, Brunet & Tassy, 2005^[1] †Stegoloxodon Kretzoi, 1950 †Stegodibelodon Coppens, 1972 †Stegotetrabelodon Petrocchi, 1941^[2]
Synonyms^[4]
Elephasidae Lesson, 1842