Rock Martin

SCI Name:  Ptyonoprogne fuligula
Protonym:  Hirundo fuligula Verz.Samml.Vog.Kaffernl. p.18
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Ptyonoprogne
Taxonomy Code:  rocmar2
Type Locality:  Kaffirland, = Grahamstown, Cape Province, by designation of Roberts, 1922.
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1842
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PTYONOPROGNE
(Hirundinidae; † Eurasian Crag Martin P. rupestris) Gr. πτυον ptuon  fan   < πτυσσω ptussō  to fold; L. progne  swallow  < Gr. myth. Progne, Procne or Prokne, metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne).  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXXVII, labelled Hirundineae: Hirundininae et Cypselinae, shows the shallowly forked, fan-shaped spread tail of the Eurasian Crag Martin; G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 13, gives Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, 1758,  as the type of this genus; "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. pl. lxxxvii, 1850.  Type by monotypy, Hirundo rupestris Scop. (also by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x, p. 95, 1885)." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, 584); "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 87, fig. [6]. Generic details only; species added, Parzudaki, 1857, Cat. Ois. Europe (1856), p. 8.  Type, Hirundo rupestris Scopoli." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 101).
Var. Ptyoprocne, Ptionoprogne.
Synon. Biblis, Chelidonia, Krimnochelidon.

fuligula / fuligulae / fuligulus
L. fuligo, fuliginis  soot; gula  throat. 
● "61. ANAS.  ...  Fuligula.  39. A. crista dependente, corpore nigro, ventre maculaque alarum albis. Fn. Svec. 99.  Anas Fuligula. Gesn. av. 107. Will. orn. 280. t. 73. Alb. av. I. p. 91. t. 95.  Anas cristata. Raj. av. 142.  Habitat in Europæ maritimis.  Mas. incubante femina, nos deserit." (Linnaeus 1758) (cf. “for fulicula, diminutive of fulix or fulica [Coot]” (BOU 1915)) (Aythya).
● ex “Hirondelle Fauve” of Levaillant 1806 (Ptyonoprogne).

Fuligula
(Anatidae; syn. Aythya † Tufted Duck A. fuligula) Specific name Anas fuligula Linnaeus, 1758; "FULIGULA.  POCHARD.  ...  FULIGULA. Ray, Leach.  NYROCA. Fleming.  PENELOPE. Briss.  GLAUCIUM. Briss.  QUERQUEDULA. Briss.  ...   TUFTED POCHARD. (Fuligula cristata.)  ... Anas Fuligula. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 207." (Stephens 1824); "Fuligula Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., 12, (2), p. 187, 1824—type, by tautonymy, Anas fuligula Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 367).

SUBSPECIES

Rock Martin (Pale Crag-Martin)
SCI Name: Ptyonoprogne fuligula [obsoleta Group]
PTYONOPROGNE
(Hirundinidae; † Eurasian Crag Martin P. rupestris) Gr. πτυον ptuon  fan   < πτυσσω ptussō  to fold; L. progne  swallow  < Gr. myth. Progne, Procne or Prokne, metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne).  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXXVII, labelled Hirundineae: Hirundininae et Cypselinae, shows the shallowly forked, fan-shaped spread tail of the Eurasian Crag Martin; G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 13, gives Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, 1758,  as the type of this genus; "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. pl. lxxxvii, 1850.  Type by monotypy, Hirundo rupestris Scop. (also by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x, p. 95, 1885)." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, 584); "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 87, fig. [6]. Generic details only; species added, Parzudaki, 1857, Cat. Ois. Europe (1856), p. 8.  Type, Hirundo rupestris Scopoli." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 101).
Var. Ptyoprocne, Ptionoprogne.
Synon. Biblis, Chelidonia, Krimnochelidon.

Rock Martin (Red-throated)
SCI Name: Ptyonoprogne fuligula fusciventris/bansoensis
PTYONOPROGNE
(Hirundinidae; † Eurasian Crag Martin P. rupestris) Gr. πτυον ptuon  fan   < πτυσσω ptussō  to fold; L. progne  swallow  < Gr. myth. Progne, Procne or Prokne, metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne).  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXXVII, labelled Hirundineae: Hirundininae et Cypselinae, shows the shallowly forked, fan-shaped spread tail of the Eurasian Crag Martin; G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 13, gives Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, 1758,  as the type of this genus; "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. pl. lxxxvii, 1850.  Type by monotypy, Hirundo rupestris Scop. (also by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x, p. 95, 1885)." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, 584); "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 87, fig. [6]. Generic details only; species added, Parzudaki, 1857, Cat. Ois. Europe (1856), p. 8.  Type, Hirundo rupestris Scopoli." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 101).
Var. Ptyoprocne, Ptionoprogne.
Synon. Biblis, Chelidonia, Krimnochelidon.

Rock Martin (Large)
SCI Name: Ptyonoprogne fuligula [fuligula Group]
PTYONOPROGNE
(Hirundinidae; † Eurasian Crag Martin P. rupestris) Gr. πτυον ptuon  fan   < πτυσσω ptussō  to fold; L. progne  swallow  < Gr. myth. Progne, Procne or Prokne, metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne).  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXXVII, labelled Hirundineae: Hirundininae et Cypselinae, shows the shallowly forked, fan-shaped spread tail of the Eurasian Crag Martin; G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 13, gives Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, 1758,  as the type of this genus; "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. pl. lxxxvii, 1850.  Type by monotypy, Hirundo rupestris Scop. (also by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x, p. 95, 1885)." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, 584); "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 87, fig. [6]. Generic details only; species added, Parzudaki, 1857, Cat. Ois. Europe (1856), p. 8.  Type, Hirundo rupestris Scopoli." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 101).
Var. Ptyoprocne, Ptionoprogne.
Synon. Biblis, Chelidonia, Krimnochelidon.