Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:33.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Zeylonae" [Sri Lanka] .

DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Burma, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: asiaticus, asurus, bengalensis, birmanicus, borneensis, ceylanicus, dakhunensis, dauntela, gigas, heterodactylus, hirsutus, indicus, isodactylus, mukna, rubridens, sinhaleyus, sondaicus, sumatranus, vilaliya, zeylanicus.

COMMENTS: See Shoshani and Eisenberg (1982, Mammalian Species, 182).