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proboscidea

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The Proboscidea (from the Greek and the Latin proboscis ) are a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family , Elephantidae , and several extinct families. This order, first described by J. Illiger in 1811, encompasses the trunked ...

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Proboscidea \Pro`bos*cid"e*a\, n. pl. [NL. See Proboscis .] (Zo["o]l.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons.

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Whoever wants to play elephas maximus of the order Proboscidea can have these goddam things.

The narial aperture is thus pushed up, and is short, with an upward direction, as in the Cetacea and Sirenia, with whom the Proboscidea have certain affinities.