Christmas Island Swiftlet / Collocalia natalis
WBN Christmas Island Swiftlet
SCI Name:
Protonym: Collocalia natalis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1888) (1888), Pt4 no.35 p.520
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Apodidae / Collocalia
Taxonomy Code: chiswi1
Type Locality: Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.
Author: Lister
Publish Year: 1889
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
COLLOCALIA
(Apodidae; † Glossy Swiftlet C. esculenta) Gr. κολλα kolla glue; καλια kalia nest; the nests of cave swiftlets are made from a cement formed in the salivary glands of breeding birds, and form the base of the Chinese delicacy birds-nest soup. However, the hard, fibrous nests of the Glossy Swiftlet are considered useless for culinary purposes; "COLLOCALIA, n. Hirundo, L. C. esculenta, (L.) n. Briss., II. t. 46. f. 2. A." (G. Gray 1840); "Collocalia G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 8. Type, by original designation, Hirundo esculenta Linné." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 220).
Var. Collicalia, Colocalia.
Synon. Salangana.
natalis
L. natalis birthday < natus born, son < nasci to be born.
● Christmas I., Indian Ocean (so-named by Capt. William Mynors, of the East India Co., when he sailed past on Christmas Day 1643) (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, subsp. Chalcophaps indica, subsp. Collocalia esculenta, Ninox, Zosterops).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
