Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)

Don E. Wilson, 1993, Order Proboscidea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 367-367 : 367

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scientific name	Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)
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Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) View in CoL . Handb. Naturgesch., 5th ed., p. 125.

TYPE LOCALITY: Restricted to the Orange River, South Africa by Pohle (1926; see Allen, 1939) .

DISTRIBUTION: From S Mauritania, Mali, Chad, and Sudan south to N South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Threatened; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: albertensis, angammensis, angolensis, berbericus, capensis, cavendishi, cottoni, cyclotis , fransseni, hannibaldi, knochenhaueri, mocambicus, orleansi, oxyotis , peeli, pharaohensis, prima, priscus , pumilio, rothschildi, selousi, toxotis, typicus, zukowskyi.

COMMENTS: See Laursen and Bekoff (1978, Mammalian Species, 92).