Collocalia

Collocalia
Temporal range: Early Miocene (Altonian)-recent
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Glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Tribe: Collocaliini
Genus: Collocalia
G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Hirundo esculenta
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Collocalia is a genus of swifts, containing some of the smaller species termed "swiftlets". Formerly a catch-all genus for these, a number of its former members are now normally (though not by all authors) placed in Aerodramus.