Lama guanicoe

Lama guanicoe est species mammalium familiae Camelidarum ordinis Artiodactylorum, quae in America Australi endemica est et artissime cum Lama glama cognata est. Epitheton specialis ex huanaco (litteris hodiernis wanaku), vocabulo Quechuano, derivatur.^[2] Animalia iuvenia chulengos appellantur.^[3]

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Mammalia
Ordo : Artiodactyla
Familia : Camelidae
Genus : Lama
Species : Lama guanicoe
(Müller, 1776)

Conservationis status

LC

Vigens (IUCN 3.1)^[1]

Territorium

Distributio geographica

Lama guanicoe ad armum est ab 1.0 ad 1.3 metra alta, corpore a 2.1 ad 2.2 metra longa.^[4]^[5]^[6] A 90 ad 140 chiliogrammata ponderis est.^[7] Color pellis minime variat (pellis Lamae glamae domesticae dissimilis), a brunneo pallido ad atrocastaneum varians, alboque infra tinctus. Facies cana et aures parvi rectique sunt.

Lama guanicoe est unum ex maximis mammalibus terrestribus in America Australi hodie endemicis.^[8] Inter alias megafaunas mammalianas ponderis similis aut maioris sunt Tapiridae, Blastocerus dichotomus, Odocoileus virginianus, Tremarctos ornatus, et Panthera onca.

Inter praedatores naturales sunt Puma concolor et variae Canidae.

Sunt quattuor subspecies descriptae.

Lama guanicoe guanicoe
Lama guanicoe cacsilensis
Lama guanicoe voglii
Lama guanicoe huanacus

[1]
IUCN (vide situs scientificos).
[2]
"Guanaco – LAMA GUANICOE". America Zoo. Lesley Fountain .
[3]
"Species Profile: Guanaco". Concervación Patagonia. 22 Decembris 2011 .
[4]
Stahl, Peter W. (4 Aprilis 2008). "Animal Domestication in South America". In Silverman, Helaine; Isbell, William. Handbook of South American Archaeology. Springer. pp. 121–130. ISBN 9780387752280 /
[5]
"Guanaco - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures". Animalia. 22 Augusti 2019
[6]
https://www.dimensions.guide/element/guanaco
[7]
"Lama guanicoe". Animal Diversity Web. 18 Iulii 2016 .
[8]
San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes.

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