Report: Loxodonta africana - ITIS

Genus, Loxodonta Anonymous, 1827 – African Elephants. Species, Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) – African savannah elephant, African elephant, ... IntegratedTaxonomicInformationSystem-Report Home AboutITIS AboutITISPage What'sNew OrganizationalInformation BackgroundInformation OrganizationandPartners MemorandumofUnderstanding DataDevelopmentHistoryandDataQuality StandardsandDatabaseDocumentation FrequentlyAskedQuestions WhatisanITISTSN? GlossaryofITISTerms? HowDoICiteITIS? HowDoILinktoITIS? Whatistheformatofadownloadfile? ContactUs DataAccessandTools DataAccessInformation ITISTools AdvancedSearch WebServices WebServiceInformation DescriptionofITISWebServices DevelopingaClient ITISSolrWebServices ITISSolrWSExamples HierarchicalReport CompareNames GetITISData FullDatabaseDownload Instructions DatabaseFiles DownloadDatainTWBFormat SubmitandUpdateData DataSubmissionInformation SubmissionRequirementsandGuidelines ITISTaxonomicWorkbench GotoPrintVersion Loxodontaafricana  (Blumenbach,1797) TaxonomicSerialNo.:584939 (DownloadHelp) Loxodontaafricana TSN584939  TaxonomyandNomenclature           Kingdom: Animalia     TaxonomicRank: Species     Synonym(s):       CommonName(s): Africansavannahelephant[English]       Africanelephant[English]       AfricanBushElephant[English]             TaxonomicStatus:       CurrentStanding: valid             DataQualityIndicators:       RecordCredibilityRating: verified-standardsmet            TaxonomicHierarchy          KingdomAnimalia  –Animal,animaux,animals       SubkingdomBilateria           InfrakingdomDeuterostomia              PhylumChordata  –cordés,cordado,chordates                SubphylumVertebrata  –vertebrado,vertébrés,vertebrates                   InfraphylumGnathostomata                       SuperclassTetrapoda                          ClassMammalia Linnaeus,1758 –mammifères,mamífero,mammals                            SubclassTheria ParkerandHaswell,1897                               InfraclassEutheria Gill,1872                                  OrderProboscidea Illiger,1811 –Elephants                                     FamilyElephantidae Gray,1821                                        GenusLoxodonta Anonymous,1827 –AfricanElephants                                           SpeciesLoxodontaafricana (Blumenbach,1797)–Africansavannahelephant,Africanelephant,AfricanBushElephant            References           Expert(s):       Expert: DonE.Wilson     Notes: SmithsonianInstitution,MRC108WashingtonDC20560-0108      Referencefor: Loxodontaafricana              OtherSource(s):       Source: 2000IUCNRedListofThreatenedSpecies,website(version2000)     Acquired: 2001      Notes: http://www.redlist.org/      Referencefor: Loxodontaafricana              Publication(s):       Author(s)/Editor(s): Roca,AlfredL.,NicholasGeorgiadis,JillPecon-Slattery,andStephenJ.O'Brien     PublicationDate: 2001      Article/ChapterTitle: GeneticEvidenceforTwoSpeciesofElephantinAfrica      Journal/BookName,Vol.No.: Science,vol.293      Page(s): 1473-1477      Publisher:       PublicationPlace:       ISBN/ISSN:       Notes:       Referencefor: Loxodontaafricana              Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson,DonE.,andDeeAnnM.Reeder,eds.     PublicationDate: 1993      Article/ChapterTitle:       Journal/BookName,Vol.No.: MammalSpeciesoftheWorld:ATaxonomicandGeographicReference,2nded.,3rdprinting      Page(s): xviii+1207      Publisher: SmithsonianInstitutionPress      PublicationPlace: Washington,DC,USA      ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9      Notes: Correctionsweremadetotextat3rdprinting      Referencefor: Loxodontaafricana              Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson,DonE.,andDeeAnnM.Reeder,eds.     PublicationDate: 2005      Article/ChapterTitle:       Journal/BookName,Vol.No.: MammalSpeciesoftheWorld:ATaxonomicandGeographicReference,3rded.,vols.1&2      Page(s): 2142      Publisher: JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress      PublicationPlace: Baltimore,Maryland,USA      ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4      Notes:       Referencefor: Loxodontaafricana,AfricanBushElephant[English]              Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson,DonE.,andF.RussellCole     PublicationDate: 2000      Article/ChapterTitle:       Journal/BookName,Vol.No.: CommonNamesofMammalsoftheWorld      Page(s): xiv+204      Publisher: SmithsonianInstitutionPress      PublicationPlace: Washington,DC,USA      ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3      Notes: WithcontributionsbyBernadetteN.Graham,AdamP.Potter,andMarianaM.Upmeyer      Referencefor: Loxodontaafricana             GeographicInformation           GeographicDivision: Africa             Jurisdiction/Origin:              Comments           Comment: Comments:SeeLaursenandBekoff(1978,MammalianSpecies,92)andDeraniyagala(1955).Thenamecornaliae(Aradas,1870)isbasedonaLoxodontamolarfromCatania,Sicily,andinferentiallywasaCarthaginianimport(C.Groves,perscomm.,2002).TheNorthAfricannames(berbericus,hannibali,pharaohensis)wereplacedinthissynonymyinsteadofunderL.cyclotispersuggestionofColinGroves(pers.comm.,2002)       Status:CITES-AppendixIIforBotswana,Namibia,SouthAfrica,andZimbabwe,AppendixIforotherAfricancountries;U.S.ESA-Threatened;IUCN-Endangered              SubordinateTaxa  Rank  VerifiedStandardsMet  VerifiedMinStandardsMet  Unverified PercentStandardsMet   LOADING...   Searchon:  AnyNameorTSN  CommonName  ScientificName  TSN In: every Animal Plant Fungal Bacteria Protozoa Chromista Archaea  Kingdom exactly for containing startingwith endingwith     Go toAdvancedSearchandReport Disclaimer: 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