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Phytelephas
Phytelephas Phy*tel"e*phas, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a plant + ? the elephant; also, ivory.] (Bot.) A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

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- Elephas is one of two surviving genera in the family of elephants, Elephantidae, with one surviving species, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus. Several...
- Carl Linnaeus proposed the scientific name Elephas maximus in 1758 for an elephant from Ceylon. Elephas indicus was proposed by Georges Cuvier in 1798...
- "Palinurus elephas (Mediterranean lobster)". Malawi Cichlid Homepage. Retrieved June 3, 2011. "Exploitation models of the red lobster Palinurus elephas in the...
- elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant. Carl Linnaeus proposed the scientific name Elephas maximus...
- America, and in South American rainforests. Megasoma elephas elephas (Fabricius, 1775) Megasoma elephas iijimai Nagai, 2003 Elephant beetle larvae develop...
- Elephas hysudrindicus, commonly known also as the Blora elephant in Indonesia (lit. Gajah Blora in Indonesian), is a species of extinct elephant from...
- elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) that inhabits northeastern Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia....
- Palaeoloxodon back into Elephas (which contains the living Asian elephant). While the sinking of Palaeoloxodon into Elephas (with Palaeoloxodon sometimes...
- mammoth its scientific name, Elephas primigenius, in 1799, placing it in the same genus as the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). This name is Latin for...
- The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatr****) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of...