Genus Collocalia G.R. Gray, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Collocalia Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [8] [validated as correct name with above authorship, place of publication and type species by International Commission on Zooogical Nomenclature Opinion 457, gender feminine; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, Callocalia by Broadbent, K. 1910. Birds of Cardwell and Herbert River districts (N.Q.). Emu 10: 233–245 (234); published without description but based by reference on Hirundo esculenta Linnaeus, 1758, and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(5)].

  Type species:

   Hirundo esculenta Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Hemiprocne Riemann, G. 1838. Zoologisch-technologischer Lietfaden für Realschulen und Gymnasien. Magdeburg : Publisher unknown. [34] [junior homonym of Hemiprocne Nitzsch, 1829; for application of name, see Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 3 pp. 217–320 pls 343–351 [26 Aug. 1918, volume dated as 1918–1919] (260)].

  Type species:

   Hirundo esculenta Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Salangana Lesson, R.P. 1840. II. Analyses d'Ouvrages nouveau. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 3: 144-145 [after Apr.] [145] [attribution follows Oberholser, H.C. 1906. A monograph of the genus Collocalia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 58: 177–212 (179) in so far as Salangana Lesson, 1840 is made available by reference to the 'Salanganes' of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837 under ICZN Art. 12(b)(1), cf. Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 3 pp. 217–320 pls 343–351 [26 Aug. 1918, volume dated as 1918–1919] (260); Mathews, G.M. 1933. Additions and corrections to the Australian portion of Systema Avium Australasianarum. Emu 32: 282–287; also attributed to Streubel, 1848 by Hartert, E. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp. XIV pls [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) (contrasting opinion) Sherborn, C.D. 1922. Index Animalium; sive, Index nominem quae ab A.D. 1758 generibus et speciebus animalium imposita sunt, societatibus eruditorum adiuvantibus. Sectio Secunda, 1801–1850. London : British Museum Pt 1 cxxxvi 128 pp. [lx] Browning, M.R. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1991. Clarifications and corrections of the dates of issue of some publications containing descriptions of North American birds. Arch. Nat. Hist. 18: 381–405] (496)—misapplied under that author to genus Aerodramus Oberholser by Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (226), see Medway, Lord & Pye, J.D. 1977. Echolocation and the systematics of swiftlets. pp. 225–238 in Stonehouse, B. & Perrins, C. (eds). Evolutionary Ecology. London : Macmillan vi 310 pp.].

  Type species:

   Hirundo esculenta Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brooke, R.K. 1972. Generic limits in old world Apodidae and Hirundinidae. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 92: 53-57 [55]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

SE Asia, Indonesian archipelagos, and all Papuasia to Solomon Ils and New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Philippines

Distribution References

General References

Beehler, B.M. & Finch, B.W. 1985. Species-Checklist of the Birds of New Guinea. Australasian Ornithological Monographs No. 1. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iii 126 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Brooke, R.K. 1970. Taxonomic and evolutionary notes on the subfamilies, tribes, genera and subgenera of the swifts (Aves: Apodidae). Durban Museum Novitates 9: 13-24 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Devillers, P. 1976. Projet de Nomenclature française des Oiseaux du Monde 1. Struthionides aux Phoenicopterides. Le Gerfaut 66: 153-168 (synonymy)

Devillers, P. 1977. Projet de Nomenclature française des Oiseaux du Monde 5. Trogonides aux Picides. Le Gerfaut 67: 469-489 (synonymy)

Devillers, P. 1978. Projet de Nomenclature française des Oiseaux du Monde 6. Eurylaimidés aux Furnariidés. Le Gerfaut 68: 129-136 (synonymy)

Devillers, P. 1978. Projet de Nomenclature française des Oiseaux du Monde 7. Formicariides et Rhynocryptides. Le Gerfaut 68: 233-240

Devillers, P. 1978. Projet de Nomenclature française des Oiseaux du Monde 8. Cotingidae aux Xenicidae. Le Gerfaut 68: 703-720

Devillers, P. 1980. Projet de Nomenclature française des Oiseaux du Monde 9. Alaudidae aux Prunellidae. Le Gerfaut 70: 121-146 (synonymy)

Hartert, E. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp., xiv pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pts i-iv xii pp. 1-384 pls 325-362. [Date published 4 Mar. 1918: volume publication dated as 1918–1919; Publication of Pt 1 (4 Mar. 1918), Pt 2 (15 May 1918), Pt 3 (26 Aug.), Pt 4 (19 Dec 1918), Pt 5 (12 June 1919)] (synonymy)

Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Medway, Lord & Pye, J.D. 1977. Echolocation and the systematics of swiftlets. pp. 225-238 in Stonehouse, B. & Perrins, C. (eds). Evolutionary Ecology. London : Macmillan vi 310 pp. (synonymy)

Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salomonsen, F. 1983. Revision of the Melanesian swiftlets (Apodes, Aves) and their conspecific forms in the Indo-Australian and Polynesian region. Noona Dan Papers no. 141. Biologiske Skrifter Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 23(5): 1-112 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Stresemann, E. 1925. Bruchstücke einer Revision der Salanganen (Collocalia). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 11: 179-190 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. (synonymy)

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

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