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African Red-rumped or West African Swallow

Cecropis melanocrissus Rüppell, WPES 1845

Classification
Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Hirundinidae
Genus:
   Cecropis
Scientific:
  Cecropis melanocrissus


Original description

Citation:
  Rüppell, WPES 1845

Reference:
   Syst. Uebers. Vög. N.-O.-Afr.

Protonym:
  Cecropis melanocrissus

Type locality:
  Province of Barakit, and Gondar, Ethiopia.

Link:
  https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35997969


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  91315CD465BFE1C6

Avibase ID:
  avibase-91315CD4

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/91315CD4


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 924936

Geographic range:

  • Cecropis melanocrissus melanocrissus: highlands of Ethiopia
  • Cecropis melanocrissus kumboensis: Sierra Leone (Birwa Plateau) and Cameroon (Bamenda highlands)
  • Cecropis melanocrissus emini: southeastern South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo southward through Uganda and Kenya to Malawi and northern Zambia
  • Cecropis melanocrissus domicella: Senegambia and Guinea eastward to southwestern Sudan, South Sudan, and western Ethiopia
English:
African Red-rumped or West African Swallow
French:
Hirondelle de Rüppell


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
African Red-rumped or West African Swallow ( Cecropis melanocrissus) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
African Red-rumped or West African Swallow ( Cecropis [melanocrissus or domicella])
Clements, version 2024:
African Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis melanocrissus) [version 1]
eBird version 2024:
African Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis melanocrissus) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2:
African Red-rumped Swallow ( Cecropis melanocrissus) [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: full species (sometimes a subspecies)

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Cecropis [daurica, rufula, melanocrissus or badia] (sensu lato) by some authors

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English: African Red-rumped or West African Swallow, African Red-rumped Swallow
French: Hirondelle de Rüppell, Hirondelle de Rüppell ou H. ouest-africaine, Hirondelle rousseline (de Rüppell)
Scientific: Cecropis [melanocrissus or domicella], Cecropis melanocrissus

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