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--> FAMILY Camelidae
GENUS Camelus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 65. | | Type Species: | Camelus dromedarius Linnaeus, 1758, designated by Hay (1902). Has been widely cited as C. bactrianus (see Gentry et al., 1996) and hence a change in desigation was proposed by Erridge (1988), but has not been supported. | | Comments: | Essentially allopatric distribution of the domesticated populations of the two species may reflect adaptations to different habitats of ancestral wild populations. |
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