Elephas namadicus
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| Asian Straight-tusked Elephant | |
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Fossil
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | Elephantidae |
| Genus: | Elephas |
| Subgenus: | †Palaeoloxodon |
| Species: | †E. (P.) namadicus |
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| Elephas (Palaeoloxodon)namadicus |
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Elephas namadicus was a species of 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) prehistoric elephant that ranged throughout Pleistocene Asia, from India (where it was first discovered) to Japan, where the indigenous Neolithic cultures hunted that particular subspecies for food. It is a descendant of the Straight-Tusked Elephant.
Some authorities regard it to be a subspecies of E. antiquus, the Straight-Tusked Elephant, due to extreme similarities of the tusks.
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