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Line 20: }} The '''~~Elephant~~Family of elephant''' ~~are~~was a [[family (biology)\|family]] of large, herbivorous mammals collectively called [[elephant]]s and [[mammoth]]s. These are [[terrestrial animal\|terrestrial]] large [[mammal]]s with a [[snout]] modified into a [[Elephant#Trunk\|trunk]] and [[teeth]] modified into [[tusk]]s. Most [[Genus\|genera]] and [[species]] in the family are [[extinction\|extinct]]. Only two genera, ''[[Loxodonta]]'' (African elephants) and ''[[Elephas]]'' (Asiatic elephants), are [[Extant taxon\|living]]. The family was first described by [[John Edward Gray]] in 1821,<ref>{{cite journal\|last1=Gray\|first1=John Edward\|title=On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals\|journal=London Medical Repository\|date=1821\|volume=15\|pages=297–310\|url=https://archive.org/details/londonmedicalre08unkngoog}}</ref> and later assigned to taxonomic ranks within the order Proboscidea. The Elephantidae have also been revised by various authors to include or exclude other extinct proboscidean genera.

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