Hirundapus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Caprimulgiformes
- Family
- Apodidae
- Genus
- Hirundapus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Hirundapus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hirundapus
Hirundapus is a genus of swifts in the family Apodidae. The name Hirundapus is constructed from the names of the swallow genus Hirundo and the swift genus Apus.
It contains the following species:
- White-throated needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)
- Purple needletail (Hirundapus celebensis)
- Silver-backed needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)
- Brown-backed needletail (Hirundapus giganteus)
Hirundapus in languages:
- Bokmål
- Typiske nålehaler
- English
- Typical Needletails
- English
- Large Needletails
- Finnish
- piikkikiitäjät
- German
- Echte Stachelschwanzsegler
- Japanese
- ハリオアマツバメ属
- Russian
- Колючехвостые стрижи
- Thai
- สกุล นกแอ่นใหญ่
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