Genus Hirundapus Hodgson, 1837

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hirundapus Hodgson, B.H. 1837. Additions to the ornithology of Nepal. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 770-781 [publication dated as 1836] [780] [as Hirund-apus, emended here according to ICZN Art. 31(d); also as incorrect subsequent spelling, Hirundinapus by Sclater, P.L. 1866. Notes on the genera and species of Cypselidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 593–617 (607); questionably diagnosed but availability established under ICZN Art. 12(b)(6); commonly cited as based on 'Cypselus nudipes' Hodgson, 1837 or 'Chaetura nudipes' Hodgson, 1837—but the new name nudipes was never combined unambiguously in these binomina in the protologue].

  Type species:

   Hirundapus nudipes Hodgson, 1837 by original designation (=Hirundapus caudacutus nudipes Hodgson, 1837).
• Pallenia Bonaparte, C.L. in Parzudaki, É. 1856. Catalogue des oiseaux d'Europe offerts en 1856 aux ornithologistes. Paris : É. Parzudaki 25 pp. [25] [published without description but based by reference on Hirundo caudacuta Latham, 1802 and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(5); treated instead as nom. nov. for Pallene Lesson, 1837, preoccupied (type species Cypselus giganteus Temminck, 1825) by Richmond, C.W. 1917. Generic names applied to birds, with additions and corrections to Waterhouse's "Index Genera Avium". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 53: 565–636 (612), by reference to Pallenia Bonaparte, 1857, in Rivista Contemporanea, Torino 9: 212; 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] (263)].

  Type species:

   Hirundo caudacuta Latham, 1801 by monotypy.
• Hirundinapus Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp. [536] [unjustified emendation of Hirundapus Hodgson, 1837].

 

Taxonomic Decision for 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.
• Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp.
• 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
• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.
• Wolters, H.E. 1975–1982. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey xx 745 pp.
• Collins, C.T. & Brooke, R.K. 1976. A review of the swifts of the genus Hirundapus (Aves: Apodidae). Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Contributions in Science 282: 1-22 [11]
• Mees, G.F. 1985. Comments on species of the genus Hirundapus (Aves: Apodidae). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wetenschappen C 88: 63-73
• Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

E Asia from Siberia and Japan to India, the Greater Sundas, Philippines and Sulawesi; some species reach Lesser Sundas, Papuasia and even New Zealand on migration; accidental in W Eurasia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24)

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)
• Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
• New Zealand

Distribution References

General References

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. [470] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Lack, D. 1956. A review of the genera and nesting habits of swifts. Auk 73: 1-32 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Lack, D. 1956. Spine-tailed Swifts of the old world. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 76: 72-73 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mees, G.F. 1973. The status of two species of migrant swifts in Java and Sumatra (Aves, Apodidae). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 46: 197-207 [11] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)