Dichotomous Key/Proboscidea
Appearance
Proboscidea | |
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Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Subphylum | Vertebrata |
Class | Mammalia |
Subclass | Placentalia |
Order | Proboscidea |
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Parent key: Mammalia |
Subclasses |
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Marsupialia - Monotremata - Placentalia |
Key: Mammalia |
Orders |
Afrosoricida - Artiodactyla - Carnivora - Cetacea - Chiroptera - Dermoptera - Insectivora - Lagomorpha - Macroselidae - Marsupialia - Monotremata - Perissodactyla - Pholidota - Primates - Proboscidea - Rodentia - Scandentia - Sirenia - Xenarthra |
1
- Fingers at tip of trunk
- One - 2
- Two - Asian Elephant, Elephas maximus
2: Loxodonta
- Ear shape
- Rounded - African savannah elephant, Loxodonta africana
- Pointed - African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis