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Camelus bactrianus Linnaeus 1758
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Camelus bactrianus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:65.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Bactria" (= Uzbekistan, Bokhara) (domesticated stock).
DISTRIBUTION: Exists in the wild only in SW Mongolia, Kansu, Tsinghai, and Sinkiang (China); domesticated in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, north to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China.
STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.
SYNONYMS: ferus.
COMMENTS: Includes ferus Przewalski, 1883, based on wild specimen; bactrianus Linnaeus, 1758, has priority. Produces fertile hybrids with dromedarius. Though their distributions merge, breeding is regulated (as all individuals are domesticated in the zone of contact). Corbet (1978c:197), citing A.P. Gray (1954), stated that male hybrids are sterile.
Notes
Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 381, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189
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- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Camelidae
- Genus
- Camelus
- Species
- bactrianus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Camelus bactrianus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
- Gray, A. P. 1954. Mammalian hybrids: A checklist with bibliography. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, Farnham Royal, United Kingdom, 262 pp.