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Loxodonta

Genus Loxodonta, (from Greek Loxo: meaning slanting, and odonta: meaning tooth) belonging to the family of elephants, elephantidae, named by Cuvier 1825.

Fossils from Loxodonta has only been found in Africa, where they developed in the middle Pliocene.

Species

Loxodonta adaurora, extinct, developed into to the modern African elephant.

African savanna elephant Loxodonta africana.

African forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis .

North African elephant Loxodonta pharaoensis.