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Llamas and Guanacos
Lama
Lama is a genus containing two South American camelids, the wild guanaco and the domesticated llama. This genus is closely allied to the wild vicuña and domesticated alpaca of the genus Vicugna. Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas and alpacas were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent. They were kept not only for their value as beasts of burden, but also for their flesh, hides, and wool.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
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Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.383
Wonders of Creatures
Anonymous · 1500 · p.172
Margarita philosophica
Reisch, Gregorius · 1504 · p.433
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.531
Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume, Middle of the Lower Part
李時珍 · 1596 · p.91
The Tudor Pattern Book (Herbal-Bestiary)
Anonymous · 1525 · p.85
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.151
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.584
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.583
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.536
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.586
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.325
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lama in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 42237.