Progne
| Progne | |
|---|---|
| Brown-chested martin (Progne tapera) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Subfamily: | Hirundininae |
| Genus: | Progne F. Boie, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Hirundo purpurea[1] = Hirundo subis | |
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Progne is a genus of passerine birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. The species are found in the New World and all have "martin" in their common name.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Progne was introduced in 1826 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie for the purple martin.[2][3] The genus name refers to Procne (Πρόκνη), a Greek mythological queen who was turned into a swallow to save her from her husband Tereus. She had killed their son Itys to avenge the rape of her sister Philomela.[4]
The genus contains the following nine species:[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Progne tapera | Brown-chested martin | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, the United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, a vagrant to Chile and the Falkland Islands |
 | Progne murphyi | Peruvian martin | Peru and far northern Chile |
 | Progne modesta | Galapagos martin | Galápagos Islands |
_Ford_Bay_Marina_09.jpg) | Progne subis | Purple martin | West Coast from British Columbia to Mexico, to East Coast |
_(15934988176).jpg) | Progne elegans | Southern martin | Argentina and southern Bolivia |
 | Progne chalybea | Grey-breasted martin | Central and South America |
 | Progne sinaloae | Sinaloa martin | Mexico |
 | Progne cryptoleuca | Cuban martin | Cuba |
 | Progne dominicensis | Caribbean martin | Mainland Central and South America, Caribbean islands from Jamaica east to Tobago |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Hirundinidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ↑ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen". Isis von Oken (in German). 19. Cols 969–981 [971].
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 85.
- ↑ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
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