Red-throated rock martin

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Red-throated rock martin
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In Kenya
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Hirundinidae
Genus: Ptyonoprogne
Species:
P. rufigula
Binomial name
Ptyonoprogne rufigula
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Range

The red-throated rock martin (Ptyonoprogne rufigula), also known as the red-throated crag-martin, [2] is a small passerine bird in the swallow family, Hirundinidae. It is found over a large area of Africa from Sierra Leone eastwards to Eritrea and Ethiopia and then south across East Africa to Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the large rock martin.

Taxonomy

The red-throated rock martin was formally described in 1884 by the explorer Gustav Fischer and the ornithologist Anton Reichenow based on a specimen collected in the highlands of Eritrea. They coined the binomial name Cotyle rufigula. [3] [4] It is now one of five martins placed in the genus Ptyonoprogne that was introduced in 1850 by German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. [5] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek πτυον/ptuon meaning "fan" with Latin progne meaning "swallow". [6] The specific epithet rufigula is from Latin rufus meaning "red" with gula meaning "throat". [7] The red-throated rock martin was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the southern African large rock martin (Ptyonoprogne fuligula) with the English name "rock martin" for the combined taxa. The red-throated rock martin was elevated to species status based on morphological differences and phylogenomic analysis. [5] [8]

Three subspecies are recognised: [5]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Ptyonoprogne rufigula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T104005790A104344586. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T104005790A104344586.en . Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  2. ↑ del Hoyo, J.; Kirwan, G.M.; Collar, N.; Boesman, P.F.D. (2024). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Red-throated Crag-Martin (Ptyonoprogne rufigula), version 1.0" . Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  3. ↑ Fischer, Gustav; Reichenow, Anton (1884). "Neue Vogelarten aus dem Massailand (Inneres Ostafrika)". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 32 (165): 52-58 [53].
  4. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 103.
  5. 1 2 3 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  6. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Ptyonoprogne". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  7. ↑ Jobling, James A. "rufigula". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  8. ↑ Schield, D.R.; Brown, C.E.; Shakya, S.B.; Calabrese, G.M.; Safran, R.J.; Sheldon, F.H. (2024). "Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the swallow family (Hirundinidae) inferred from comparisons of thousands of UCE loci". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 197: 108111. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108111 .
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