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{{Short description|Genus of mammals}} |
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{{R with history}} |
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| image_caption = ] |
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{{R from alternative scientific name|mammal}} |
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| taxon = Vicugna |
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| authority = ], 1842 |
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| subdivision_ranks = Species |
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*'']'' <small>(], 1782)</small> |
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'''''Vicugna''''' is a genus containing two South American ], the ] and the ]. |
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Previously thought to be descended from the ], the ] was reclassified as part of ''Vicugna'' after a 2001 paper on alpaca DNA.<ref name=wheeler>{{cite journal|first =Dr Jane|last =Wheeler|author2=Miranda Kadwell |author3=Matilde Fernandez |author4=Helen F. Stanley |author5=Ricardo Baldi |author6=Raul Rosadio |author7=Michael W. Bruford |date=December 2001|title =Genetic analysis reveals the wild ancestors of the llama and the alpaca|journal =Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume =268|issue =1485|pages =2575–2584|id= 0962-8452 (Paper) 1471-2954 (Online) |
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|doi = 10.1098/rspb.2001.1774|pmid=11749713|pmc=1088918}}</ref> The paper showed that the alpaca is descended from the vicuña, not the ], though considerable cross-hybridization has taken place between domesticated llamas and alpacas. |
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| ] burial site in Peru]] |
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==References== |
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{{Artiodactyla|T.}} |
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{{Camelids}} |
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