Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Passerimorphae > Order Passeriformes > Suborder Passeri > Superfamily Hirundinoidea > Family Hirundinidae > Genus Hirundo

Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hirundo*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: dallandyshja bishtgërshanë; dallëndyshja bishtgërshërë sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Bulgarian: Селска лястовица sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: landsvale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: boerenzwaluw sources: Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp.

English: barn swallow; Eurasian swallow; swallow sources: Woehler E.J. (compiler) 2006. Species list prepared for SCAR/IUCN/BirdLife International Workshop on Antarctic Regional Seabird Populations, March 2005, Cambridge, UK.;Keith, S., E.K. Urban &Fry, C. H. (1992). The Birds of Africa, Volume IV. Academic Press, London.

French: hirondelle rustique sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

German: Rauchschwalbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Σταβλοχελίδονο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: סנונית רפתות sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: šelmeninė kregždė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: låvesvale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: låvesvale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: dymówka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Romanian: rândunică sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: деревенская ласточка; или касатка sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish Gaelic: fáinleog sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: kmečka lastovka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: golondrina común sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: ladusvala sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kir kirlangici; kır kırlangıcı sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Ластівка сільська; Сільська ластівка sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: gwennol

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	Keith, S., E.K. Urban &Fry, C. H. (1992). The Birds of Africa, Volume IV. Academic Press, London.
additional source	Gallardo, J. C.; Macías, V.; Velarde, E. (2009). Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Pp. 1321–1342.