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:	ASIAN ELEPHANT (Eng) INDIAN ELEPHANT (Eng) ELÉPHANT D'ASIE (Fre) ELÉPHANT D'INDE (Fre) ELEFANTE ASIÁTICO (Spa)

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

Citation:	Asian Elephant Specialist Group 1996. Elephas maximus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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