Lama pacos - #1754
Alpaca
Side view of shorn adult. Complicated hybrid with Lama glama. Also as Vicugna vicugna or Vicugna pacos.
Geographic Distribution
From C Peru south to W Bolivia and N Chile.
Order/Family
Camelidae
Genus
Lama
Specific Epithet
pacos
Image Date
1976
Photographer
KW Fink - contributed by DG Huckaby