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elephas maximus indicus
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What is an elephant's name in latin?
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What is the latin name of an African Elephant?
Elephas maximus Actually, Elephas maximus is the Latin name for an Asian Elephant and it means: huge arch. Because an Asian Elephant has an arched back, and an African elephant has a dip in it's back
What is an Asian Elephant?
An Asian elephant is a taxonomic species within the elephant family - Latin name Elephas maximus.
What is an African Savannah elephant?
An African Savannah elephant is one of the two species of African elephant, Latin name Loxodonta africana.
What is an African forest elephant?
An African forest elephant is one of the two species of African elephant, Latin name Loxodonta cyclotis.
What is the animal that's name starts with an i?
Ibex, Indian Swallow, Indian Elephant, Indian Rhino, Ibis
What is Elphas and maximus in the scientific name for Indian elephant?
"Elphas" and "maximus" in the scientific name for the Indian elephant, Elephas maximus, refer to the genus and species of the animal, respectively. The genus "Elephas" includes Asian elephants, while "maximus" denotes that it is the largest species within that genus.
What is Latin name elephant?
Translating animals names into the Latin language can be hard. The Latin names for elephant are as follows; elephanti, elephas, belua, bos lucas, elephantus, ebur, elefantus, elephasus, and bellua.
What does the latin name loxodonta africana mean?
it means African savannah elephant The African forest elephant is Loxodonta cyclotis
What is the Latin name for an elephant hawk moth?
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What does the elephant's name mean?
Elephant comes from the Greek word for ivory (ελεφαντόδοντο) as is reflected in the Greek word for elephant (ελέφαντας)
Why are there two parts to the elephant's Latin name?
You're referring to what is known as the elephant's "Linnean binomial". This is not actually its "Latin name", which is simply elephas. Instead, it's a name bestowed and used by scientists according to a system devised in the 1700's by the Swedish biologist Carl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus in Latin). In this system, every species can be identified by the name of its genus (the group of closely-related species to which it belongs) and the name of its species within that genus. The genus name is always capitalized, and the species name never is. Genus and species names are often derived from Latin, but not always; for example, the famous fossil Lucy belongs to the species Australopithecus afarensis, which is actually from three languages:australo- is from the Latin for "southern"pithecus is from the Greek for "ape"afar is from the Afar language of northeast Africa-ensis is a Latin suffix meaning "belonging to a place"There are three species of elephant: the African Bush Elephant Loxodonta africana, the African Forest Elephant Loxodonta cyclotis, and the Asian Elephant Elephas maximus.
