Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 382

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scientific name	Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776)
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Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776) View in CoL . Linné's Vollstand. Natursyst. Suppl., p. 50.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Andes of Patagonia .

DISTRIBUTION: Cordilleras of the Andes: S Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile; Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego ( Chile and Argentina); Navarino Isl ( Chile).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: cacsilensis, huanacus, loennbergi, mesolithica , molinaei, voglii.

COMMENTS: Has previously been included with the Llama, L. glama , of which it may be the wild ancestor, see Lydekker (1915). See also Hemmer (1990).