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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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- 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...
- The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is the only living Elephas species. It is the largest living land animal in Asia...
- elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant. Carl Linnaeus proposed the scientific name Elephas maximus...
- elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) that inhabits northeastern Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia....
- 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...
- suggested that Elephas recki should instead be placed in Palaeoloxodon, though many later authors continued to place the species in the genus Elephas, treating...
- derived from the Latin word elephas (genitive elephantis) 'elephant', which is the Latinised form of the ancient Gr**** ἐλέφας (elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος (elephantos...
- 1017/S0025315400007700. S2CID 85220945. Crustaceans portal Media related to Palinurus elephas at Wikimedia Commons Photos of Palinurus elephas on Sealife Collection...
- isodus, in 1819 by Italian zoologist Saverio Macri (1754–1848); Squalus elephas, by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1822; Squalus rashleigh****, by Jonathan...
- The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatr****) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of...