Brown-bellied Swallow
Brown-bellied Swallow
Here the details of the Brown-bellied Swallow named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Petrochelidon murina Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 6 p.370
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Orochelidon
Taxonomy Code: brbswa1
Type Locality: Ecuador.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1853
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
OROCHELIDON
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Brown-bellied Swallow O. murina) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos mountain (i.e. Ecuadorean Andes); χελιδων khelidōn, χελιδονος khelidonos swallow; "Orochelidon †, new genus. Differing from Atticora, Neochelidon and Notiochelidon in having the subbasal phalanx of middle toe entirely free from the outer toe; from Diplochelidon in having the tail much less than two-thirds as long as wing, and forked for less than one-fourth its length (nearly even in one species), and nasal fossæ occupying at least basal half of maxilla. Type, Petrochelidon murina Cassin (= Hirundo cinerea Gmelin?) ... † Oρος, a mountain; χελιδων, a swallow." (Ridgway 1903).
Synon. Haplochelidon.
murina
Mod. L. murinus mouse-grey < L. murinus of mice, mouse- < mus, muris mouse.
● ex “Murine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
SUBSPECIES
Brown-bellied Swallow (murina)
SCI Name: Orochelidon murina murina
murina
Mod. L. murinus mouse-grey < L. murinus of mice, mouse- < mus, muris mouse.
● ex “Murine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
Brown-bellied Swallow (meridensis)
SCI Name: Orochelidon murina meridensis
meridae / meridana / meridanus / meridensis
Mérida, Venezuela.
Brown-bellied Swallow (cyanodorsalis)
SCI Name: Orochelidon murina cyanodorsalis
cyanodorsalis
L. cyanos lapis lazuli < Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; dorsalis (properly dorsualis) dorsal, -backed < dorsum back.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)