| Chinese Elephant | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | Elephantidae |
| Genus: | Elephas |
| Species: | Elephas maximus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Elephas maximus rubridens |
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The Chinese Elephant or the Pink-tusked Elephant (Elephas maximus rubridens) is an extinct subspecies of Asian Elephants that once lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC. It had once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in Northern China, but excessive hunting due to trade of ivories reduced the population to extinction.
Elephants still survived in the southwestern provinces of China after the extinction of the Chinese Elephant, but they are of a different subspecies, the Indian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus.