Orochelidon
Sign in to saveOrochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These species are resident in the Andes Mountains of South America.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyHirundinidae
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Orochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These species are resident in the Andes Mountains of South America.
==Taxonomy== The genus Orochelidon was introduced in 1903 by the America ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the brown-bellied swallow as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek oros meaning "mountain" and khelidōn meaning "swallow". The genus was formerly considered as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon but was resurrected for a clade of Neotropical swallows based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2005.
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