The Proboscidea of the Past

[Ngala]

Now i read that the genus Loxodonta, in fact, is not considered valid. I tought that with the downgradation of the genus Palaeoloxodon described in 1920 to a subgenus, the genus Loxodonta (described before, in 1797) becomes valid, but i was wrong.

Read this interesting article @GrizzlyClaws: Elephant history rewritten by ancient genomes

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"Love Dalén, a palaeogeneticist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, says that the study will force a reshuffle of the elephant family tree. “Basically Loxodonta is not valid as a genus name,” he says. He thinks that taxonomists may need to come up with new names for the different species, to better represent the relationship between savannah, forest and straight-tusked elephants."

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Furthermore, some species could be a results of interbreeding. Reply