kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Chordata >
subphylum: Vertebrata >
infraphylum: Gnathostomata >
parvphylum: Osteichthyes >
megaclass: Tetrapoda >
class: Aves >
order: Passeriformes >
family: Hirundinidae Rafinesque, 1815 >
genus: Hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 >
species: Hirundo smithii Leach & K. D. Koenig, 1818 >