Pygochelidon

Pygochelidon
	Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
Scientific classification
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 Africa and South America.

Taxonomy[]

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]

Species[]

The genus contains two species:^[5]

Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
Black-collared swallow (Pygochelidon melanoleuca)

References[]

^ Baird, Spencer F. (1864). Review of American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1, North and Middle America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 270, 308.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 326. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 88. |volume= has extra text (help)
^ 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.008.
^ ^a ^b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 July 2021.

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[1] Baird, Spencer F. (1864). Review of American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1, North and Middle America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 270, 308.

[2] Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 326. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[3] Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 88. |volume= has extra text (help)

[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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.008.

[ioc-5] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 July 2021.

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