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Ellaborate Camelus ferus Przewalski, 1878 to a species on its own #15

Closed mdoering closed 7 years ago

mdoering commented 7 years ago

Our backbone currently has the genus Camelus as:

Camelus Linnaeus, 1758
  = Camelius Bowdich, 1821
  = Camellus Molina, 1782
  = Dromedarius Gloger, 1841
  = Paracamelus Schlosser, 1903
 Camelus dromedarius Linnaeus, 1758
     = Camelus arabicus Desmoulins, 1823
     = Camelus ferus Falk, 1786
    Camelus dromedarius dromedarius
    Camelus dromedarius subsp. ferus Falk, 1786  [from ICZN]
 Camelus bactrianus Przewalski, 1878
    Camelus bactrianus bactrianus
    Camelus bactrianus ferus Przewalski, 1878
 Camelus guanicoe Müller, 1776
 Camelus ferus Przewalski, 1878

"C. bactrianus ferus" is in fact now considered a full species C. ferus (with an IUCN red list assessment: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/63543/0).

According to Wikipedia, recent research has shown that these wild Bactrian Camels are not feral domesticated Bactrian Camels but share a more distant ancestor. Hence the name C. ferus has been elevated to be considered a third species (critically endangered), corresponding to small populations of wild two-humped camels.

mdoering commented 7 years ago

This issue was moved to gbif/backbone-patch#5