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Progne
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Purple Martin
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyHirundinidae
Progne es un género de aves paseriformes perteneciente a la familia Hirundinidae. Es propio de América.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 13
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Hirundinidae
- Collections
- ROM, UMZC, INMA, UF, LSUMZ, BOUM
- Recorded in
- Peru, Brasil, United States, Brazil, Suriname
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- References
Progne is a genus of passerine birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. The species are found in the New World and all have "martin" in their common name.
==Taxonomy== The genus Progne was introduced in 1826 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie for the purple martin. The genus name refers to Procne (), a Greek mythological queen who was turned into a swallow to save her from her husband Tereus. She had killed their son Itys to avenge the rape of her sister Philomela.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Progne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.