Orochelidon
Genus of birds
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Orochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These species are resident in the Andes Mountains of South America.
| Orochelidon | |
|---|---|
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| Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Genus: | Orochelidon Ridgway, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Petrochelidon murina brown-bellied swallow Cassin, 1853 | |
Taxonomy
The genus Orochelidon was introduced in 1903 by the America ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the brown-bellied swallow as the type species.[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek oros meaning "mountain" and khelidōn meaning "swallow".[3] The genus was formerly considered as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon but was resurrected for a clade of Neotropical swallows based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2005.[4][5]
Species
The genus contains three species:[5]
- Pale-footed swallow (Orochelidon flavipes)
- Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina)
- Andean swallow (Orochelidon andecola)
