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Halcyon
Swainson, 1821
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Entity:
Halcyoninae (Subfamily)
..Actenoides (Genus)
..Caridonax (Genus)
..Cittura (Genus)
..Clytoceyx (Genus)
..Dacelo (Genus)
..Lacedo (Genus)
..Melidora (Genus)
..Pelargopsis (Genus)
..Syma (Genus)
..Tanysiptera (Genus)
..Todiramphus (Genus)
..Halcyon (Genus)
....Halcyon albiventris (Species) - brown-hooded kingfisher
....Halcyon badia (Species) - chocolate-backed kingfisher
....Halcyon chelicuti (Species) - striped kingfisher
....Halcyon coromanda (Species) - ruddy kingfisher
....Halcyon cyanoventris (Species) - Javan kingfisher
....Halcyon leucocephala (Species) - grey-headed kingfisher
....Halcyon malimbica (Species) - blue-breasted kingfisher
....Halcyon pileata (Species) - black-capped kingfisher
....Halcyon senegalensis (Species) - woodland kingfisher
....Halcyon senegaloides (Species) - mangrove kingfisher
....Halcyon smyrnensis (Species) - white-throated kingfisher
Authorship
Original name
:
Swainson, 1821. Zool. Illust., (1) 1 (5), pl. 27; Morris 1837, in Woods, Naturalist, 2 (9), 124.
Types
Type of
:
Halcyoninae
(Subfamily)
Vigors, 1825
Variants
Different spelling
:
Halcion
(Genus)
Bonaparte, 1831
Ref:
S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]
: [19 Dec 2008].
Different spelling
:
Halycon
(Genus)
Smith, 1834
Ref:
S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]
: [19 Dec 2008].
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
bodemijsvogels
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
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