Elephas maximus

– Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

PROBOSCIDEA

Family:

ELEPHANTIDAE

Scientific Name:

Elephas maximus

Species Authority:

Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/s:

English	—	ASIAN ELEPHANT, INDIAN ELEPHANT
French	—	ELÉPHANT D'ASIE, ELÉPHANT D'INDE
Spanish	—	ELEFANTE ASIÁTICO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EN A1cd ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Asian Elephant Specialist Group

History:

1965	-	"Very rare but believed to be stable or increasing" as E. m. ceylanicus (Scott 1965)
1986	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Viet Nam

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Asian Elephant Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Citation:	Asian Elephant Specialist Group 1996. Elephas maximus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 September 2008.
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