Grey-rumped swiftlet
Appearance
Grey-rumped Swiftlet | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Apodidae |
Genus: | Collocalia |
Species: | C. marginata
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Binomial name | |
Collocalia marginata (Salvadori, 1882
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Synonyms | |
Collocalia esculenta marginata |
The grey-rumped swiftlet or gray-rumped swiftlet (Collocalia marginata) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was previously considered a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet.
References
- Rheindt, F.E., L. Christidis, J.A. Norman, J.A. Eaton, K.R. Sadanandan, and R. Schodde. 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: 401-433.