Cow-Wheat Clustercup Rust vs Dromedary Camel

Puccinia nemoralis compared with Camelus dromedarius

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Cow-Wheat Clustercup Rust	Dromedary Camel
Kingdom	Fungi (فطر)	Animalia (حيوانات)
Phylum	Basidiomycota (دعاميات)	Chordata (حبليات)
Class	Pucciniomycetes (شقرانانية)	Mammalia (ثدييات)
Order	Pucciniales (شقرانيات)	Artiodactyla (مزدوجات الأصابع)
Family	Pucciniaceae	Camelidae (Camels)
Genus	Puccinia	Camelus (Camels)
Species	Puccinia nemoralis	Camelus dromedarius

Conservation Status

Cow-Wheat Clustercup Rust

NE — Not Evaluated

Dromedary Camel

NE — Not Evaluated

Population: ~15.0M

Trend: Stable →

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Cow-Wheat Clustercup Rust	Dromedary Camel
Diet	—	Herbivore
Average Lifespan	—	40 years
Average Length	—	2.3 m
Average Weight	—	600.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Cow-Wheat Clustercup Rust

Dromedary Camel

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Sudan.

Dromedary Camel

The dromedary is the single-humped camel, domesticated over 4,000 years ago. The hump stores fat, not water.