Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) Deutsch: Male elephant at A-11, Sri Lanka
Date 4 May 2013, 13:23:40
Author Cherubino https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cherubino
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Male_elephant_at_A-15,_Sri_Lanka.JPG
The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan elephant population is now largely restricted to the dry zone in the north, east and southeast of Sri Lanka. Elephas maximus maximus is the type subspecies of the Asian elephant, first described by Carl Linnaeus under the binominal Elephas maximus in 1758.
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: Elephas
Species: Elephas maximus
Subspecies: Elephas maximus maximus Linnaeus, 1758
