Proboscidea
Appearance
- Metazoa - (superphylum)
- Chordata - (phylum)
- Vertebrata - (subphylum)
- Mammalia - (class)
- Theria - (subclass)
- Eutheria - (metaclass)
- Proboscidea - (order)
- Elephantidae - (family)
- Loxodonta africana - (species)
- Elephas maximus - (species)
- Elephantidae - (family)
- Proboscidea - (order)
- Eutheria - (metaclass)
- Theria - (subclass)
- Mammalia - (class)
- Vertebrata - (subphylum)
- Chordata - (phylum)
Proboscidea is an order in the animal taxonomy including only one family (the elephants with 2 species, the African elephant and the Asian (former Indian) elephant. During the period of the Ice Age there were more, now extinct species, like mammoths and mastodonts.