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Elephas falconeri (also known as Palaeoloxodon falconeri, or more commonly as the Sicilian Pygmy Elephant) is an extinct Siculo-Maltese species of elephant closely related to the modern Asian elephant. In 1867 George Busk had proposed the species Elephas falconeri for many of the smallest molars selected from the material originally ascribed by Hugh Falconer to Elephas melitensis. This island-bound elephant was an example of insular dwarfism, reaching only 90 cm (3 ft) in height. E. falconeri's ancestors most likely reached the Mediterranean islands it was found on during lowered sea levels of the ice age.