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Lama glama

Mammalia - Camelidae

Taxonomy
Camelus glama was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Auchenia lama by Giebel (1883); it was recombined as Lama glama by Thomas (1911), Stanley et al. (1994) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Camelus glama Linnaeus p. 65
1883Auchenia lama Giebel p. 511
1911Lama glama Thomas p. 150
1994Lama glama Stanley et al. p. 1
2008Lama glama Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
familyCamelidae
subfamilyCamelinaeGray 1821
tribeLaminiWebb 1965
genusLamaCuvier 1800
speciesglama()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Lama glama Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available