from where did its name originate?
The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek "ptuon", "a fan", referring to the shape of the opened tail, and Procne , a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow. The specific name "obsoleta" means "worn" in Latin.
Pale crag martin
The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek "ptuon" (πτύον), "a fan", referring to the shape of the opened tail, and Procne (Πρόκνη), a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow. The specific name "obsoleta" means "worn" in Latin.
what is referred to as pale crag martin? A small passerine bird.
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Pale crag martin [SEP] Taxonomy
The pale crag martin was first formally described in 1850 by German ornithologist Jean Cabanis as "Cotyle obsoleta", using a specimen collected from near Cairo, Egypt. It was moved to the new genus "Ptyonoprogne", created by German ornithologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, in the same year. The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek "ptuon" (πτύον), "a fan", referring to the shape of the opened tail, and Procne (Πρόκνη), a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow. The specific name "obsoleta" means "worn" in Latin. The "Ptyonoprogne" species are members of the swallow family of birds, and are classed as members of the Hirundininae subfamily, which comprises all swallows and martins except the very distinctive river martins.