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African Bush Elephant
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Proboscidea - elephants »  family Elephantidae - elephants »  genus Loxodonta - African Elephants

Scientific synonyms

Elephas africanus Blumenbach, 1797 o

Other names

= African Elephant
= African Savanna Elephant
= Savanna Elephant

Images

Loxodonta africana - African Bush Elephant

Author: Jiří Novák

Loxodonta africana - African Bush Elephant

Author: Jiří Novák

Loxodonta africana africana - South African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana africana - South African Bush Elephant

Author: Silvie Hojná, Petr Bašus

Loxodonta africana africana - South African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana africana - South African Bush Elephant

Author: Silvie Hojná, Petr Bašus

Loxodonta africana africana - South African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana africana - South African Bush Elephant

Author: Silvie Hojná, Petr Bašus

Loxodonta africana oxyotis - West African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana oxyotis - West African Bush Elephant

Author: Jaroslav Chalupka

Loxodonta africana knochenhaueri - East African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana knochenhaueri - East African Bush Elephant

Author: Dagmar Jurčíková

Loxodonta africana knochenhaueri - East African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana knochenhaueri - East African Bush Elephant

Author: Dagmar Jurčíková

juvenile animal


skull


skeleton

Loxodonta africana - African Bush Elephant

Author: Klaus Rudloff
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Intertaxon relationships

predator: Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) - Lion

food: Sansevieria Thunb. - Sansevieria, Guarea Allemão ex L. - guarea, Faurea saligna Harv., Ocotea Aubl. - sweetwood, Melia L. - melia, ...

parasite: Murshidia brachyscelis Mönnig, 1926, Murshidia neveulemairei Weinberg, 1925, Quilonia khalili Neveu-Lemaire, 1928, Murshidia brevicapsulatus Mönnig, 1926, Murshidia omoensis Neveu-Lemaire, 1924, ...

Included taxa

Number of records: 4

subspecies Loxodonta africana africana (Blumenbach, 1797) - South African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana africana

subspecies Loxodonta africana knochenhaueri (Matschie, 1900) - East African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana knochenhaueri

subspecies Loxodonta africana orleansi (Lydekker, 1907) - Ethiopian Elephant
subspecies Loxodonta africana oxyotis (Matschie, 1900) - West African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana oxyotis


Links and literature

http://wildlife1.wildlifeinformation.org...
SPECIES VARIATION with literature reports for the African Elephant - Loxodonta africana
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [181008073]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1000522]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Loxodonta africana Blumenbach, 1797]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)]

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Explanations

o original combination

species extinct or not found recently in area described by check-list

i species introduced to area described by check-list