| Petrochelidon | |
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| AnAmerican cliff swallow starting to build a mud nest under the eaves of a building inCalifornia | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Genus: | Petrochelidon Cabanis, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Hirundo melanogaster[1] Swainson, 1827 | |
| Species | |
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Petrochelidon is agenus ofbirds known as cliff-nestingswallows. The genus namePetrochelidon is from theGreek wordspetra, "rock", andkhelidon, "swallow".[2]
The genus includes all of the five species of birds commonly calledcliff swallow, and contains the followingspecies:
The genus contains ten species:[3]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | American cliff swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Canada and the United States of America, South American countries, such as Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and parts of Argentina. |
.jpg) | Cave swallow | Petrochelidon fulva | south-eastern New Mexico, Texas, Florida, the Greater Antilles, portions of southern Mexico, and along the west coast of South America. |
.jpg) | Chestnut-collared swallow | Petrochelidon rufocollaris | Ecuador and Peru. |
 | Preuss's cliff swallow | Petrochelidon preussi | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. |
 | Red-throated cliff swallow | Petrochelidon rufigula | Angola, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Gabon, and Zambia. |
| Red Sea cliff swallow | Petrochelidon perdita | Sudan. | |
.jpg) | South African cliff swallow | Petrochelidon spilodera | Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
_in_Hyderabad%2c_AP_W_IMG_2514.jpg) | Streak-throated swallow | Petrochelidon fluvicola | Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. |
.jpg) | Fairy martin | Petrochelidon ariel | Australia, with some birds reaching New Guinea and Indonesia. |
.jpg) | Tree martin | Petrochelidon nigricans | Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia east of the Wallace Line and the Solomon Islands. |
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