How Many Types Of Elephants Are in the planet ?
Elephants are enormous earthly vertebrates having a place with the family Elephantidae inside the request Proboscidea. The nearest surviving family members of elephants are the dugongs, the manatees, and the hyraxes. Two unmistakable sorts of elephants were perceived, the African elephant (Loxodonta) and the Asian elephant (Elephas). In 1942, the African elephants were ordered into 18 subspecies, however hereditary examinations later perceived just two subspecies, the savannah elephant and the woodland elephant . Nonetheless, another significant change in the order of elephants came in the 21st century when DNA examines uncovered that these two subspecies qualified to be treated as independent species. Nonetheless, there are still discussions with respect to the order of the African elephants into species and subspecies, and keeping in mind that some untamed life bodies perceive the shrubbery and backwoods elephants as independent species, others remember them as subspecies of the African elephant.

Asian elephants are found in South Asia and South-east Asia, and there are three kinds of elephants in this species: the Sri Lankan elephant, the Indian elephant, and the Sumatran elephant. A few investigations likewise group the Bornean elephant as an unmistakable sub-animal varieties.

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8. African Elephant
7.Savannah/Bush Elephant
6.Asian Elephant
5.Forest Elephant
4.Indian Elephant
3.Sumatran Elephant
2.Sri Lankan Elephant

1.Borneo Elephant

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