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P.19

Amendment to Appendix I of the Convention

Annex Al

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A. PROPOSAL

Transfer of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from Appendix II to Appendix I of the Convention.

8. PROPONENT

C.

United States of America

SUPPORTING STATEMENT

1. TAXONOMY

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Proboscidea

11. Class

Mammalia

12. Order

13. Family

14. Scientific name

15.

subspecies

according to Western, 1986

Elephantidae

Loxodonta africana

(Blumenbach, 1797)

L. a. africana - "bush" or "savannah" elephant

L. a. cycletis elephant

"forest"

[According to Ansell (in Meester and Setzer 1971), there are actually four subspecies of bush elephant: L. a. africana, southern Africa: L. a. knochenhaueri, eastern Africa; L. a. orleansi, Ethiopia and Somalia; and L. a. oxyotis, open country of western and north-central Africa; and two subspecies of forest elephant: L. a. cyclotis, forested areas of western and central Africa; and L. a. pharaohensis, originally in northern Africa, now extinct.]

Common names:

English

French

Spanish

African elephant

L'elephant d'Afrique

Elefante africano

16. Code number: ISIS: 530 1415 001 002 001 001

2. BIOLOGICAL DATA

The African elephant is the largest living land animal. It differs from the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in its larger size, larger ears, concave back with highest point at the shoulder, and two fingerlike processes at the trunk-tip (one in the Asian), and in that both sexes usually carry tusks (Laursen and Bekoff 1978).

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