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Vicugna (vicugna)

Wikipedia Abstract

Vicugna is a genus containing two South American camelids, the vicuña and the alpaca. Previously thought to be descended from the llama, the alpaca was reclassified as part of Vicugna after a 2001 paper on alpaca DNA. The paper showed that the alpaca is descended from the vicuña, not the guanaco.
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Species

Auchenia gracilis
Vicugna pacos (alpaca) (Attributes)
Vicugna vicugna (vicugna) (Attributes)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0