Collocalia

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.

Collocalia
Temporal range: Early Miocene (Altonian)-recent
~19–0 Ma
Glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Tribe: Collocaliini
Genus: Collocalia
G.R. Gray 1840
Species

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The genus Collocalia was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1854.[1][2] The name Collocalia combines the classical Greek words kolla meaning "glue" and kalia for "nest".[3]

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.[4][5]

Species

Extant

The genus now contains the following 11 species:[5]

Fossil species

An Early Miocene fossil swiftlet from the Riversleigh deposits of Australia was described as Collocalia buday.[6] This as well as a right ulna (MNZ S42799) found at the Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia Group near the Manuherikia River in Otago, New Zealand. Dating from the Early to Middle Miocene (Altonian, 19-16 million years ago),[7] probably belongs to Aerodramus.

References
  1. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 220.
  2. 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.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Rheindt, Frank E.; Christidis, Les; Norman, Janette A.; Eaton, James A.; Sadanandan, Keren R.; Schodde, Richard (2017). "Speciation in Indo-Pacific swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae): integrating molecular and phenotypic data for a new provisional taxonomy of the Collocalia esculenta complex". Zootaxa. 4250 (5): 401–433. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.5.1.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts & swifts". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  6. 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.
  7. Worthy et al. (2007)

Bibliography


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