Collocalia Sumbawae Bird
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Collocalia Sumbawae Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Collocalia esculenta sumbawae Mitt.Zool.Mus.Berlin 12 Heft1 p.189,note2
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Apodidae / Collocalia
Taxonomy Code: tenswi1
Type Locality: Tambora, 3000 feet, Sumbawa.
Author: Stresemann
Publish Year: 1925
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
COLLOCALIA
(Apodidae; † Glossy Swiftlet C. esculenta) Gr. κολλα kolla glue; καλια kalia nest; the nests of cave swiftlets are made from a cement formed in the salivary glands of breeding birds, and form the base of the Chinese delicacy birds-nest soup. However, the hard, fibrous nests of the Glossy Swiftlet are considered useless for culinary purposes; "COLLOCALIA, n. Hirundo, L. C. esculenta, (L.) n. Briss., II. t. 46. f. 2. A." (G. Gray 1840); "Collocalia G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 8. Type, by original designation, Hirundo esculenta Linné." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 220).
Var. Collicalia, Colocalia.
Synon. Salangana.
sumbavense / sumbavensis / sumbawae / sumbawana / sumbawensis
Sumbawa I., Lesser Sunda Is., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
SUBSPECIES
Tenggara Swiftlet (sumbawae)
Latin Name: Collocalia sumbawae sumbawae
sumbavense / sumbavensis / sumbawae / sumbawana / sumbawensis
Sumbawa I., Lesser Sunda Is., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
Tenggara Swiftlet (sumbae)
Latin Name: Collocalia sumbawae sumbae
sumbae / sumbaensis / sumbanus
Sumba I., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
