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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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Offspring:

SPECIES bactrianus

SUBSPECIES bactrianus

SUBSPECIES ferus

SPECIES dromedarius

Synonyms:

    Camellus Molina, 1782
    Dromedarius Gloger, 1841

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