Subgenus Hirundo (Hirundo) Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hirundo Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [191].

  Type species:

   Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see 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].
• Chelidon Forster, J.R. 1817. Synonymic Catalogue of British Birds. London : British Museum Vol. 17. [55].
• Herse Gray, G.R. 1841. A List of the Genera of Birds, with their synonyms and an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J. Taylor xii 115 pp. [Date published Sep 1841] [junior homonym of Herse Oken, 1815 (Lepidoptera)].
• Hypurolepis Gould, J. 1868. The Birds of Asia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1. [text to pl. 32].

  Type species:

   Hirundo domicola Jerdon, 1844 by subsequent designation, see Salvadori, T. 1881. Ornithologiae della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Turin : T. Salvadori Vol. 2. [1].
• Hypurolepsis Sundevall, C.J. 1872. Methodi Naturalis Avium Disponendarum Tentamen. Stockholm : Samson & Wallin lxix 187 + 12 pp. [52] [unjustified emendation of Hypurolepis Gould, 1868: ICdZN Art.33.2].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
  • New Britain
• Tonga

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Burma (= Myanmar)
• China (People's Republic)
• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Kampuchea (Cambodia)
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

History of changes

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