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Proboscidea

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ANIMAL KINGDOM

Metazoa - (superphylum)
- Chordata - (phylum)
  - Vertebrata - (subphylum)
    - Mammalia - (class)
      - Theria - (subclass)
        Eutheria - (metaclass)
        Proboscidea - (order)
        Elephantidae - (family)
        Loxodonta africana - (species)
        
        Elephas maximus - (species)

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.

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