Pygochelidon
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| Pygochelidon | |
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| Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]The genus contains two species:[5]
- Blue-and-white swallow (Pygochelidon cyanoleuca)
- Black-collared swallow (Pygochelidon melanoleuca)
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