Editing Common swift (section)

==Taxonomy==
The common swift was one of the many species described by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He introduced the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Hirundo apus''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Linnaeus |first=C. |author-link=Carl Linnaeus |year=1758 |title=Systema Naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis |volume=1 |edition=10th |page=192 |location=Holmiae |publisher=Laurentii Salvii |language=la |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727101}}</ref> The current genus ''Apus'' was erected by the Italian naturalist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] in 1777 based on [[tautonymy]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Scopoli |first=Giovanni Antonio |author-link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli |year=1777 |title=Introductio ad historiam naturalem |place=Pragae |publisher=Apud Wolfgangum Gerle |language=la |page=483 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11269479}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Peters |editor-first=James Lee |editor-link=James L. Peters |year=1940 |title=Check-list of Birds of the World |volume=4 |publisher=Harvard University Press |place=Cambridge, Massachusetts |page=244 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476715}}</ref> The word ''apus'' is the Latin word for a swift. It is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] α, ''a'', "without", and πούς, ''pous'', "foot", based on the belief that these birds were a form of swallow that lacked feet.<ref name=job/>

A Central European [[subspecies]] which lived during the [[Last glacial period|last ice age]] has been described as ''Apus apus palapus''.