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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Eutheria > Afrotheria > Proboscidea Mammal

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Proboscidea Mammal  

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Definition

  • An order of MAMMALS that feeds using their trunks. It contains one family, the Elephantidae, comprised of two living genera of ELEPHANTS plus the extinct MAMMOTHS and MASTODONS.

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-JSH1HW4C-J

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