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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.
Meaning of Elephas from wikipedia
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genus Elephas is E.
nawataensis from the Late Miocene-Early
Pliocene of Kenya,
though the
validity of this
species and its
relationship to
Elephas has been...
- Carl
Linnaeus proposed the
scientific name
Elephas maximus in 1758 for an
elephant from Ceylon.
Elephas indicus was
proposed by
Georges Cuvier in 1798...
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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...
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elephant (
Elephas maximus indicus) is one of
three extant recognized subspecies of the
Asian elephant. Carl
Linnaeus proposed the
scientific name
Elephas maximus...
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elephant or the
Borneo pygmy elephant, is a
subspecies of
Asian elephant (
Elephas maximus) that
inhabits northeastern Borneo, in
Indonesia and Malaysia....
- "Palinurus
elephas (Mediterranean lobster)".
Malawi Cichlid Homepage.
Retrieved June 3, 2011. "Exploitation
models of the red
lobster Palinurus elephas in the...
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suggested that
Elephas recki should instead be
placed in Palaeoloxodon,
though many
later authors continued to
place the
species in the
genus Elephas, treating...
- in 1857 by the
Scottish naturalist Hugh Falconer, who
named the
species Elephas columbi after the
explorer Christopher Columbus. The
animal was brought...
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derived from the
Latin word
elephas (genitive elephantis) 'elephant',
which is the
Latinised form of the
ancient Gr**** ἐλέφας (
elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος (elephantos...
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given the
subspecies designation Elephas maximus asurus) was the
westernmost po****tion of the
Asian elephant (
Elephas maximus),
which went
extinct in...
