Vertebrates
The elephant's trunk and the tapir's elongated nose are called "proboscis", as is the snout of the male elephant seal.
The Proboscis Monkey is named for its enormous nose, and an elongated human nose is sometimes facetiously called a proboscis.
An abnormal facial appendage that sometimes accompanies ocular and nasal abnormalities in humans is also called a proboscis.
Notable mammals with some form of proboscis are:
- Aardvark
- Members of the elephant family (see elephant trunk).
- Elephant shrews
- Hispaniolan Solenodon
- Leptictidium (extinct)
- Macrauchenia (extinct)
- Moeritherium (extinct)
- Palorchestes (extinct)
- Numbat
- Proboscis Monkey
- Saiga
- Tapiridae
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