What is the genus of Elephas maximus?

ElephasAsian elephant / GenusElephas is one of two surviving genera in the family of elephants, Elephantidae, with one surviving species, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus. Wikipedia

What is the scientific classification of an elephant?

LoxodontaAfrican elephants / Scientific name

Is Elephas maximus extinct?

Endangered (Population decreasing)Asian elephant / Conservation status

What is the common name for Elephas maximus indicus?

Asiatic Elephant
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What does the word Elephas mean?

Definition of Elephas : the type genus of the family Elephantidae comprising the Asian elephant and extinct related forms and formerly being nearly coextensive with Elephantidae.

What are the 7 classification of elephant?

Elephants are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Proboscidae, family Elephantidae.

What are elephants closely related to?

Elephants belong to the family Elephantidae, the sole remaining family within the order Proboscidea which belongs to the superorder Afrotheria. Their closest extant relatives are the sirenians (dugongs and manatees) and the hyraxes, with which they share the clade Paenungulata within the superorder Afrotheria.

What do Elephas maximus eat?

Can consume many species of plants, as well as twigs and bark but usually only a few plant taxa

• Feed on mostly browse plants during dry season.
• Shift to grass in first part of wet season;
• Return to browse feeding after heavy rains (when grass less nutritious)

Do female Indian elephants have tusks?

In Asian elephants, females do not have tusks and males can be either tusked or tuskless (called “makhnas”). This is unlike the African elephant species, in which all individuals have tusks.

What eats an Indian elephant?

Elephants generally do not have predators (animals that eat them) due to their massive size. Newborn elephants are however vulnerable to attacks from lions, tigers, and hyenas. The biggest danger to elephants are humans; elephants have been hunted for their tusks to near extinction in some cases.

What is the average lifespan of elephant?

Asian elephant: 48 years
African bush elephant: 60 – 70 yearsAfrican forest elephant: 60 – 70 years
Elephant/Lifespan

What is the classification of a tiger?

MammalTiger / Class

What is the range of Elephas maximus?

Historically, Elephas maximus had a geographic range of 9 million square kilometers across a large part of Asia. This range extended as far west as current day Iraq, as far north as the Yangtze River in China, and across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including the islands of Sri Lanka and Sumatra (Indonesia).

What is the difference between Asian Elephas maximus and Loxodonta?

Asian ele­phants have four hooves on the hind foot while African ele­phants have only three hooves. Ele­phas max­imus has a flat back while Lox­odonta have a slop­ing back. As a re­sult, the head is the high­est part of the body in E. max­imus, while the shoul­ders are the high­est in Lox­odonta.

What is the difference between Elephas maximus and Elephas indicus?

Based on DNA analyses, E. m. maximus and E. m. indicus may be part of the same group, while the population of Elephas maximus in Borneo may be a distinct subspecies. ( Sukumar, 2003; Sukumar, 2006)

How many different types of elephas are there?

There are three subspecies recognized: Elephas maximus maximus in Sri Lanka, Elephas maximus indicus in the Asian mainland, and Elephas maximus sumatranus in Sumatra (Indonesia). Elephas maximus maximus is different from the other subspecies because 90 to 95 percent of males lack tusks.