The living elephants are members of clade Afrotheria Elephant Donald Trump signatures shirt (“African animals”) along with aardvarks, elephant shrews, manatees, and a few other even more obscure animals. From there, they are grouped into order Proboscidea (“trunk”) and family Elephantidae. The three species are divided into two genera. Elephas contains the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus (“largest elephant”). It is not the largest elephant. Loxodonta (“oblique sided tooth”) contains the species L. Africana (just guess), the African bush elephant and L. cycle (see below*), the African forest elephant. I couldn’t find any explanations for the specific epithet, so I dug up the original description,
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