Biology:Grey-rumped swallow

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Short description: Species of bird

Grey-rumped swallow
Grey-rumped Swallow
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Pseudhirundo
Roberts, 1922
Species:
P. griseopyga
Binomial name
Pseudhirundo griseopyga
(Sundevall, 1850)
Synonyms[1]

Hirundo griseopyga griseopyga Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)

The grey-rumped swallow (Pseudhirundo griseopyga) is a species of swallow. It is the only member of the genus Pseudhirundo.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Phylogenetic analysis has shown that the grey-rumped swallow is most closely related to the white-backed swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna) that is found in Australia.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 BirdLife International (2017). "Pseudhirundo griseopyga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22712209A118747190.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22712209/118747190. Retrieved 25 May 2023. 
  2. Schield, D.R.; Brown, C.E.; Shakya, S.B.; Calabrese, G.M.; Safran, R.J.; Sheldon, F.H. (2024). "Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the swallow family (Hirundinidae) inferred from comparisons of thousands of UCE loci". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108111. 
Illustration by R. B. Sharpe (1894)

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