Elephas maxitnus Linnaeus, 1758

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Proboscidea, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 307-307 : 307

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

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka (=Ceylon) (domesticated stock) .

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India to Indochina; Malaysia; Sumatra; N. Borneo.

COMMENT: For discussion of subspecific variation see Deraniyagala, 1955, Ceylon Nat. Mus. Publ., Colombo, and Chasen, 1940. Bornean elephants are believed to be feral descendants of a stock introduced in the 1750's; see de Silva, 1968, Sabah Soc. J., 3(4):169— 181, and Olivier, 1978, Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge. According to Chasen, 1940, these elephants resemble the continental form rather than the one from Sumatra. See also Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1966:336; Corbet, 1978:191- 192.

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

ISIS NUMBER: 5301415001001001001.