Orochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These species are resident in the Andes Mountains of South America.
| Orochelidon | |
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| Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Genus: | Orochelidon Ridgway, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Petrochelidon murina brown-bellied swallow Cassin, 1853
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Taxonomy
editThe genus Orochelidon was introduced in 1903 by the America ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the brown-bellied swallow as the type species.[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek oros meaning "mountain" and khelidōn meaning "swallow".[3] The genus was formerly considered as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon but was resurrected for a clade of Neotropical swallows based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2005.[4][5]
Species
editThe genus contains three species:[5]
- Pale-footed swallow (Orochelidon flavipes)
- Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina)
- Andean swallow (Orochelidon andecola)
References
edit- ^ Ridgway, Robert (1903). "Descriptions of new genera species and subspecies of American birds". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 16: 105–111 [106].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 88.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 284. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Sheldon, F.H.; Whittingham, L.A.; Moyle, R.G.; Slikas, B.; Winkler, D.W. (2005). "Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequencing". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 35 (1): 254–270. Bibcode:2005MolPE..35..254S. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.008. PMID 15737595.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
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