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The bird genus Apus comprise some of the Old World members of the family Apodidae, commonly known as swifts.
They are among the fastest birds in the world. They resemble swallows, to which they are not related, but have shorter tails and sickle-shaped wings. Swifts spend most of their life aloft, have very short legs and use them mostly to cling to surfaces.




Taxonomy


The genus Apus was erected by the Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777 based on tautonymy and the common swift which had been given the binomial name Hirundo apus by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow with no feet (from Ancient Greek α, a, "without", and πούς, pous, "foot").
Before the 1950s, there was some controversy over which group of organism should have the genus name Apus. In 1801, Bosc gave the genus name Apus to the small crustacean organisms known today as Triops, and later authors continued to use this term. Keilhack suggested (in 1909) that this was incorrect since there was already an avian genus named Apus by Scopoli in 1777. The controversy was ended in 1958 when the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) ruled against the use of the genus name Apus for the crustaceans and recognized the name Triops.




Species


The genus contains 20 species:

Cape Verde swift, Apus alexandri
Common swift, Apus apus
Plain swift, Apus unicolor
Nyanza swift, Apus niansae
Pallid swift, Apus pallidus
African black swift, Apus barbatus
Malagasy black swift, Apus balstoni
Fernando Po swift Apus sladeniae
Forbes-Watson's swift, Apus berliozi
Bradfield's swift, Apus bradfieldi
Pacific swift, Apus pacificus
Salim Ali's swift, Apus salimalii
Blyth's swift, Apus leuconyx
Cook's swift, Apus cooki
Dark-rumped swift, Apus acuticauda
Little swift, Apus affinis
House swift, Apus nipalensis
Horus swift, Apus horus
White-rumped swift, Apus caffer
Bates's swift Apus batesi
Known fossil species are:

Apus gaillardi (Middle/Late Miocene of La Grive-St.-Alban, France)
Apus wetmorei (Early – Late Pliocene? of SC and SE Europe)
Apus baranensis (Late Pliocene of SE Europe)
Apus submelba (Middle Pleistocene of Slovakia)
The Miocene "Apus" ignotus is now placed in Procypseloides.




References

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