Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms
4. living organisms
5. Eukaryota
6. Animalia
7. Chordata
8. Vertebrata
9. Mammalia
10. Placentalia

Narrower term/s

• Elephantidae (family)[+]
  • Elephas (genus) [+]
    • Elephas maximus (species)
  • Mammuthus (genus)
  • Loxodonta (genus) [+]
    • Loxodonta africana (species)
    • Loxodonta cyclotis (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Order containing four living species in one family. Characterized as huge quadrupeds having long curving ivory tusks, a prehensile trunk or proboscis, columnar legs, a huge head with temporal glands, and wide flat ears. There were at least 170 fossil species, such as mammoths and mastodons.