Pygochelidon | |
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Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Hirundinidae |
Genus: |
Pygochelidon Baird, SF, 1865 |
Type species | |
Hirundo cyanoleuca blue-and-white swallow
Vieillot, 1817
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Pygochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae that occur in the Neotropics.
The genus Pygochelidon was introduced in 1865 by the American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird with the blue-and-white swallow as the type species. [1] The name combines the Ancient Greek pugē meaning "rump" with khelidōn meaning "swallow". [2]
This genus was formerly treated as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon. [3] It was resurrected to contain a clade of two species based on a genetic study published in 2005. [4] [5]
The genus contains two species: [5]
Pygochelidon | |
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Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Hirundinidae |
Genus: |
Pygochelidon Baird, SF, 1865 |
Type species | |
Hirundo cyanoleuca blue-and-white swallow
Vieillot, 1817
|
Pygochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae that occur in the Neotropics.
The genus Pygochelidon was introduced in 1865 by the American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird with the blue-and-white swallow as the type species. [1] The name combines the Ancient Greek pugē meaning "rump" with khelidōn meaning "swallow". [2]
This genus was formerly treated as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon. [3] It was resurrected to contain a clade of two species based on a genetic study published in 2005. [4] [5]
The genus contains two species: [5]