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Camelid

Camelids
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Camelidae
Species
 Lama glama
 Lama pacos
 Lama guanicoe
 Vicugna vicugna
 Camelus dromedarius
 Camelus bactrianus

The four llamas and two camels are camelids: members of the biological family Camelidae, the only family in the suborder Tylopoda.

Camelids are even-toed ungulates: they are classified in the same order as the pigs, peccaries and hippos (suborder Suidae) and the extraordinarily successful and diverse suborder Ruminantia (which includes cattle, goats, antelope and many others). Like many of the Ruminantia, camelids tend to be large and strictly herbivorous. They differ most notably by having a three-chambered rather than a four-chambered digestive tract, and in having incisors in the upper jaw.