Collocalia

Collocalia
Glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Neornithes
Infraclass: Neognathae
(unranked): Cypselomorphae
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Tribe: Collocaliini
Genus: Collocalia
G.R. Gray, 1840
Species

Collocalia esculenta
Collocalia linchi
Collocalia troglodytes
Collocalia dodgei
(but see text)

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 erstwhile members are now normally (though not by all authors) placed in Aerodramus.

Remaining in Collocalia are:

An Early Miocene fossil swiftlet from the famous Riversleigh deposits of Australia was described as Collocalia buday.[1] This as well as a right ulna (MNZ S42799) found at the Manuherikia River in Otago, New Zealand and dating from the Early to Middle Miocene (Awamoan to Lillburnian, 19-16 million years ago)[2] would probably go into Aerodramus too.

Footnotes

  1. Boles (2005)
  2. Worthy et al. (2007)

References

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