Chaetura
Chaetura is a genus of needletail swifts found in the Americas. Although they resemble swallows, the two are not at all closely related; this is instead a result of convergent evolution. Some members of Chaetura are long-distance migrants, while others are year-round residents.
Chaetura | |
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Chimney swift Chaetura pelagica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Apodidae |
Subfamily: | Apodinae |
Genus: | Chaetura Stephens, 1826 |
Species | |
11 living, see text |
The genus name is derived from the Greek khaite, for long flowing hair, and oura, for tail, referring to the stiff feathers projecting from the end of the tail.
- Grey-rumped swift – Chaetura cinereiventris
- Band-rumped swift – Chaetura spinicaudus
- Lesser Antillean swift – Chaetura martinica
- Costa Rican swift – Chaetura fumosa
- Pale-rumped swift – Chaetura egregia
- Chimney swift – Chaetura pelagica
- Vaux's swift – Chaetura vauxi
- Chapman's swift – Chaetura chapmani
- Ashy-tailed swift – Chaetura andrei
- Sick's swift – Chaetura meridionalis
- Short-tailed swift – Chaetura brachyura
A fossil species, Chaetura baconica, was described from Late Miocene deposits of Hungary.
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