Proboscidea

• Metazoa - (superphylum)
  • Chordata - (phylum)
    • Vertebrata - (subphylum)
      • Mammalia - (class)
        • Theria[?] - (subclass)
          • Eutheria - (metaclass)
            • Proboscidea - (order)
              • Elephantidae[?] - (family)
                • Loxodonta africana[?] - (species)
                • Loxodonta cyclotis[?] - (species)
                • Elephas maximus[?] - (species)

Proboscidea is an order in the animal taxonomy including only one family, the elephants, with 3 species: the African elephant, the Forest elephant[?] and the Asian elephant[?] (formerly known as the Indian elephant). During the period of the Ice Age there were more, now extinct species[?], like mammoths and mastodonts.