Elephantiformes

Elephantiformes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Suborder: Elephantiformes
Tassy, 1988
Subgroups[1]

Elephantiformes is a suborder within the order Proboscidea that contains the elephants as well as their extinct relatives.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Shoshani, J.; Tassy, P. (2005). "Advances in proboscidean taxonomy & classification, anatomy & physiology, and ecology & behavior". Quaternary International. 126–128: 5. Bibcode:2005QuInt.126....5S. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2004.04.011.
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