Editing Elephas (section)

==Taxonomy==
The scientific name ''Elephas'' was proposed by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 who described the genus and an elephant from [[Ceylon]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Linnaei, C. |year=1760 |title=Caroli Linnæi Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis |volume=Tomus I |publisher=Ioannes Ioachimus Langius |location=Halae Magdeburgicae |chapter=''Elephas maximus'' |page=33 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/carolilinnaeisys11linn#page/n80/mode/1up}}</ref>
The genus is assigned to the [[proboscidea]]n family [[Elephantidae]] and is made up of one living and seven extinct species:<ref name=Maglio1973>Maglio, V.J. (1973). "Origin and evolution of the Elephantidae". ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia Volume 63''. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, pp. 149</ref>
* ''[[Asian elephant|Elephas maximus]]'' – Asian elephant<ref name = MSW3/>
** ''[[Indian elephant|Elephas maximus indicus]]'' – Indian elephant
** ''[[Sri Lankan elephant|Elephas maximus maximus]]'' – Sri Lankan elephant
** ''[[Sumatran elephant|Elephas maximus sumatranus]]'' – Sumatran elephant
** ''[[Borneo elephant|Elephas maximus borneensis]]'' – Borneo elephant, proposed but not yet recognized as valid<ref name=Fernando03>Fernando, P., Vidya, T.N.C., Payne, J., Stuewe, M., Davison, G., et al. (2003). [http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000006 ''DNA Analysis Indicates That Asian Elephants Are Native to Borneo and Are Therefore a High Priority for Conservation'']. PLoS Biol 1 (#1): e6</ref>
The following Asian elephants were proposed as [[extinct]] subspecies, but are now considered [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonymous]] with the Indian elephant:<ref name = MSW3/>
* ''[[Javan elephant|Elephas maximus sondaicus]]'' – Javan elephant [[Extinction|†]]
* ''[[Elephants in ancient China|Elephas maximus rubridens]]'' – Chinese elephant [[Extinction|†]]
* ''[[Syrian elephant|Elephas maximus asurus]]'' – Syrian elephant [[Extinction|†]]

The following ''Elephas'' species are extinct:
* ''[[Elephas beyeri]]'' – dwarf elephant species described from [[fossil]] remains found in 1911 in [[Luzon Island|Luzon]], the [[Philippines]] by [[Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald|von Königswald]]<ref>Von Königswald, G.H.R. (1956). ''Fossil mammals from the Philippines''. National Research Council of the Philippines, Manila</ref>
* ''[[Elephas ekorensis]]'' – described from the Kubi Algi Formation, [[Turkana District|Turkana]], [[Kenya]],<ref name=Maglio1973/> dating to the Early Pliocene, one of the oldest species of the genus.<ref name="Sanders-2012">{{Cite journal |last1=Sanders |first1=William J. |last2=Haile-Selassie |first2=Yohannes |date=June 2012 |title=A New Assemblage of Mid-Pliocene Proboscideans from the Woranso-Mille Area, Afar Region, Ethiopia: Taxonomic, Evolutionary, and Paleoecological Considerations |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10914-011-9181-y |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=105–128 |doi=10.1007/s10914-011-9181-y |issn=1064-7554 |s2cid=254703858|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''[[Elephas hysudricus]]'' – described from fossil remains found in the [[Siwalik hills|Siwalik Hills]] of the northern Indian subcontinent by [[Hugh Falconer|Falconer]] and [[Proby Cautley|Cautley]], 1845,<ref>Falconer, H. & Cautley, P. T. (1846). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0SE-AAAAcAAJ ''Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, Being the Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik Hills'']. Smith, Elder & Company, London, pp. 64.</ref> thought to be the ancestor of the living Asian elephant.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lister |first1=Adrian M. |last2=Dirks |first2=Wendy |last3=Assaf |first3=Amnon |last4=Chazan |first4=Michael |last5=Goldberg |first5=Paul |last6=Applbaum |first6=Yaakov H. |last7=Greenbaum |first7=Nathalie |last8=Horwitz |first8=Liora Kolska |date=September 2013 |title=New fossil remains of Elephas from the southern Levant: Implications for the evolutionary history of the Asian elephant |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S003101821300237X |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |language=en |volume=386 |pages=119–130 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.013|bibcode=2013PPP...386..119L |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''[[Elephas hysudrindicus]]'' – a fossil elephant of the [[Pleistocene]] of [[Java (island)|Java]] and different from ''Elephas maximus sondaicus''<ref>Hooijer, D. A. (1955). [http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149023 ''Fossil Proboscidea from the Malay Archipelago and the Punjab'']. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 28 (#1): 1–146.</ref>
* ''[[Elephas planifrons]]'' - one of the oldest species, known from the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of the Indian subcontinent.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite journal |last1=Iannucci |first1=Alessio |last2=Sardella |first2=Raffaele |date=28 February 2023 |title=What Does the "Elephant-Equus" Event Mean Today? Reflections on Mammal Dispersal Events around the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary and the Flexible Ambiguity of Biochronology |journal=Quaternary |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=16 |doi=10.3390/quat6010016 |issn=2571-550X |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |hdl=11573/1680082}}</ref>
* ''[[Elephas platycephalus]]'' a species sometimes recognised from the Pleistocene of India
* ''Elephas kiangnanensis'' a species sometimes recognised from the Early-Middle Pleistocene of China.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Hanwen |last2=Wang |first2=Yuan |last3=Janis |first3=Christine M. |last4=Goodall |first4=Robert H. |last5=Purnell |first5=Mark A. |date=July 2017 |title=An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China ( Sinomastodon , Stegodon , Elephas ), by means of dental microwear texture analysis |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=445 |pages=60–70 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.011|bibcode=2017QuInt.445...60Z |doi-access=free |hdl=1983/4f6a743a-7b6d-47c8-a56a-fee7e2c515df |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>Haowen Tong & M. [[Marylène Patou-Mathis|Patou-Mathis]]. (2003). Mammoth and other proboscideans in China during the Late Pleistocene. ''Deinsea'', ''9''(1), 421–428.</ref>
* ''Elephas nawataensis'' a species of elephant known from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene of Kenya, though other authors argue that this species is actually a synonym of ''[[Primelephas korotorensis]].''<ref name=":3" />
* ''Elephas atavus''? known from the Early Pleistocene of Africa, traditionally considered part of ''[[Palaeoloxodon recki|Elephas/Palaeoloxodon recki]]'' 
While formerly assigned to this genus, ''[[Elephas recki]]'', ''[[Elephas namadicus]]'', the [[straight-tusked elephant]] ''E. antiquus'' and the [[dwarf elephant]]s ''[[Elephas falconeri|E. falconeri]]'' and ''[[Elephas cypriotes|E. cypriotes]]'' are now placed in the separate genus ''[[Palaeoloxodon]],'' which is more closely related to African elephants.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last1=Palkopoulou |first1=Eleftheria |last2=Lipson |first2=Mark |last3=Mallick |first3=Swapan |last4=Nielsen |first4=Svend |last5=Rohland |first5=Nadin |last6=Baleka |first6=Sina |last7=Karpinski |first7=Emil |last8=Ivancevic |first8=Atma M. |last9=To |first9=Thu-Hien |last10=Kortschak |first10=R. Daniel |last11=Raison |first11=Joy M. |date=2018-03-13 |title=A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=115 |issue=11 |pages=E2566–E2574 |bibcode=2018PNAS..115E2566P |doi=10.1073/pnas.1720554115 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5856550 |pmid=29483247 |doi-access=free}}</ref> However, some material historically assigned to ''Elephas recki'' , such as ''Elephas recki atavus,'' may be closely related to true ''Elephas,'' rather than to ''Palaeoloxodon<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Sanders |first=William J. |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315118918 |title=Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea |date=2023-07-07 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-315-11891-8 |edition=1 |location=Boca Raton |pages=267–293 |language=en |doi=10.1201/b20016}}</ref>'' ''[[Elephas celebensis|"Elephas" celebensis]]'' is now placed in ''[[Stegoloxodon]]''.<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal |last1=Markov |first1=Georgi N. |last2=Saegusa |first2=Haruo |date=2008-09-01 |title=On the validity of Stegoloxodon Kretzoi, 1950 (Mammalia: Proboscidea) |url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1861.1.5 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1861 |issue=1 |pages=55 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1861.1.5 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}</ref>