THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Apodidae · Clear filter
90 records · page 1 of 2
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Ameline SwiftletAerodramus amelis (Oberholser, 1906) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mariana SwiftletAerodramus bartschi (Mearns, 1909) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan SwiftletAerodramus brevirostris (Horsfield, 1840) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Seram SwiftletAerodramus ceramensis (van Oort, 1911) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Seychelles SwiftletAerodramus elaphrus (Oberholser, 1906) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mascarene SwiftletAerodramus francicus (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Edible-nest SwiftletAerodramus fuciphagus (Thunberg, 1812) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mountain SwiftletAerodramus hirundinaceus (Stresemann, 1914) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Halmahera SwiftletAerodramus infuscatus (Salvadori, 1880) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Island SwiftletAerodramus inquietus (Kittlitz, 1858) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tahiti SwiftletAerodramus leucophaeus (Peale, 1849) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-nest SwiftletAerodramus maximus (Hume, 1878) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Philippine SwiftletAerodramus mearnsi (Oberholser, 1912) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bare-legged SwiftletAerodramus nuditarsus (Salomonsen, 1962) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Marquesan SwiftletAerodramus ocistus (Oberholser, 1906) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mayr's SwiftletAerodramus orientalis (Mayr, 1935) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Three-toed SwiftletAerodramus papuensis (Rand, 1941) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Palau SwiftletAerodramus pelewensis (Mayr, 1935) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mossy-nest SwiftletAerodramus salangana (Streubel, 1848) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Atiu SwiftletAerodramus sawtelli (Holyoak, 1974) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sulawesi SwiftletAerodramus sororum (Stresemann, 1931) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-rumped SwiftletAerodramus spodiopygius (Peale, 1849) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian SwiftletAerodramus terraereginae (E. P. Ramsay, 1875) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Indian SwiftletAerodramus unicolor (Jerdon, 1840) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray SwiftletAerodramus vanikorensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Whitehead's SwiftletAerodramus whiteheadi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andean SwiftAeronautes andecolus (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-tipped SwiftAeronautes montivagus (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-throated SwiftAeronautes saxatalis (Woodhouse, 1853) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little SwiftApus affinis (J. E. Gray, 1830) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Malagasy Black SwiftApus balstoni (Bartlett, 1880) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Black SwiftApus barbatus (P. L. Sclater, 1866) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bates's SwiftApus batesi (Sharpe, 1904) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Forbes-Watson's SwiftApus berliozi Ripley, 1966 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bradfield's SwiftApus bradfieldi (Roberts, 1926) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Nyanza SwiftApus niansae (Reichenow, 1887) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| House SwiftApus nipalensis (Hodgson, 1837) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fork-tailed SwiftApus pacificus (Latham, 1801) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pallid SwiftApus pallidus (Shelley, 1870) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Salim Ali's SwiftApus salimalii Lack, 1958 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fernando Po SwiftApus sladeniae (Ogilvie-Grant, 1904) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Plain SwiftApus unicolor (Jardine, 1830) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ashy-tailed SwiftChaetura andrei von Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-tailed SwiftChaetura brachyura (Jardine, 1846) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pale-rumped SwiftChaetura egregia Todd, 1916 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Antillean SwiftChaetura martinica (Hermann, 1783) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vaux's SwiftChaetura vauxi (J. K. Townsend, 1839) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bornean SwiftletCollocalia dodgei Richmond, 1905 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Glossy SwiftletCollocalia esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
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Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.