Collocalia
| Collocalia | |
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| Glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Apodidae |
| Tribe: | Collocaliini |
| Genus: | Collocalia G.R. Gray, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Hirundo esculenta[1] Linnaeus, 1758
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Collocalia is a genus of swifts, containing some of the smaller species termed "swiftlets". Formerly a catch-all genus for these, a number of its former members are now normally (though not by all authors) placed in Aerodramus.
The genus Collocalia was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1854.[2][3] The name Collocalia combines the classical Greek words kolla meaning "glue" and kalia for "nest".[4]
The genus previously contained fewer species. Seven subspecies of the glossy swiftlet were promoted to species status based on a detailed analysis of the swiftlets in the genus Collocalia published in 2017.[5][6]
Species
Extant
The genus now contains the following 11 species:[6]
- Plume-toed swiftlet, Collocalia affinis (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Grey-rumped swiftlet, Collocalia marginata (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Ridgetop swiftlet, Collocalia isonota (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Tenggara swiftlet, Collocalia sumbawae (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Drab swiftlet, Collocalia neglecta (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Glossy swiftlet, Collocalia esculenta
- Satin swiftlet, Collocalia uropygialis (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Bornean swiftlet, Collocalia dodgei
- Cave swiftlet, Collocalia linchi
- Christmas Island swiftlet, Collocalia natalis (formerly treated as a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet)
- Pygmy swiftlet, Collocalia troglodytes
Fossil species
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.References
- ^ "Apodidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 220.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 8.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts & swifts". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ Boles, W.E. (2001). "A swiftlet (Apodidae: Collocaliini) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 25: 45–52.
- ^ Worthy et al. (2007)
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