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Definition of Loxodonta
1. Noun. A genus of Elephantidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Elephantidae, Family Elephantidae
Member holonyms: African Elephant, Loxodonta Africana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loxodonta
Literary usage of Loxodonta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"Molars of the two living elephant genera, the Asiatic Elephas and the African
Loxodonta, were originally ... Loxodonta," appears to be ancestral to L. ..."
2. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"Loxodonta. Lamina of the teeth with lozenge-shaped crown. ... BM Loxodonta
africana, Gray, List Mamm. BM 1843; Gerrard, Cat. ..."
3. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"AFRICAN ELEPHANT Loxodonta Loxodonta F. Cuvier, 1827, Zool. ... Although Cuvier
established the genus Loxodonta for the African elephants more than eighty ..."
4. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Sections of skull of young and adult African elephant, Loxodonta africana, ...
Molar tooth patterns of African elephant, Loxodonta africana, ..."
5. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"Molar of the African Elephant (Loxodonta africanus) showing the oblique the Spaces
between the mode of wear. Heavy black lines indicate enamel ridges are ..."
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