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ORDER PROBOSCIDEA

Author:Illiger, 1811.
Comments:Traditionally (since Illiger, 1811) the category or rank of "Order" has been used for Proboscidea. In 1997 McKenna, Bell et al., following cladistic classification, proposed a new category – "Parvorder" for PROBOSCIDEA. For ‘stability’ I retained the ordinal category, even though the category parvorder conveys a cladistic message.
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    Proboscidiae Gray, 1821
    Probosciformes Kinman, 1994

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