Brown-bellied Swallow

SCI Name:  Orochelidon murina
Protonym:  Petrochelidon murina Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 6 p.370
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Orochelidon
Taxonomy Code:  brbswa1
Type Locality:  Ecuador.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1853
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OROCHELIDON
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Brown-bellied Swallow O. murina) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain (i.e. Ecuadorean Andes); χελιδων khelidōn, χελιδονος khelidonos  swallow; "Orochelidon †, new genus.   Differing from Atticora, Neochelidon and Notiochelidon in having the subbasal phalanx of middle toe entirely free from the outer toe; from Diplochelidon in having the tail much less than two-thirds as long as wing, and forked for less than one-fourth its length (nearly even in one species), and nasal fossæ occupying at least basal half of maxilla.   Type, Petrochelidon murina Cassin (= Hirundo cinerea Gmelin?)   ...   † Oρος, a mountain; χελιδων, a swallow." (Ridgway 1903).
Synon. Haplochelidon.

murina
Mod. L. murinus  mouse-grey  < L. murinus  of mice, mouse-  < mus, muris  mouse.
● ex “Murine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Brown-bellied Swallow (murina)
SCI Name: Orochelidon murina murina
murina
Mod. L. murinus  mouse-grey  < L. murinus  of mice, mouse-  < mus, muris  mouse.
● ex “Murine Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

Brown-bellied Swallow (meridensis)
SCI Name: Orochelidon murina meridensis
meridae / meridana / meridanus / meridensis
Mérida, Venezuela.

Brown-bellied Swallow (cyanodorsalis)
SCI Name: Orochelidon murina cyanodorsalis
cyanodorsalis
L. cyanos  lapis lazuli  < Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; dorsalis (properly dorsualis) dorsal, -backed  < dorsum  back.