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)
10. Artiodactyla (order)
11. Cervidae (family)
12. Capreolinae (subfamily)
13. Alces (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Members of a species of very large, heavy, long-legged, short-necked ruminants with large distinctive palmate antlers; they inhabit the northern parts of North America and Eurasia. They are called "elk" in Europe, but the term "elk" refers to another animal, Cervus canadensis, in North America.