Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Camelus Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus Camelus Linnaeus, 1758

  • Camelus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundem Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentis, Synonymis, Locis. Tom.1, Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii 824 pp. [65].
    Type species:
     Camelus dromedarius Linneaus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Allen, G.M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 83: 1-763 [465]

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hickman, G.C. 1981. National mammal guides: a review of references to Recent faunas. Mammal Review 11: 53-85

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

The Palaearctic, Ethiopian and Oriental Regions largely by introduction as a domesticated species, probably native only to SW Asia.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Ethiopia

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, W plateau
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
    • Western Australia: W plateau

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

  • Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. London : British Museum viii 226 pp.
  • Grubb, P. 1993. Order Artiodactyla. pp. 377-414 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D-A.M. (eds). Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Washington : Smithsonian Institute
  • Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Säugetiere: Artiodactyla. Handbuch Zoologisches Berlin 8(teil 1, lfg. 32): 1-167 pls 1-16