Orochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These species are resident in the Andes Mountains of South America.

Orochelidon
Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

Taxonomy

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The 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

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The genus contains three species:[5]

References

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  1. ^ Ridgway, Robert (1903). "Descriptions of new genera species and subspecies of American birds". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 16: 105–111 [106].
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 284. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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.
  5. ^ 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.