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Taxon: Family Nectariniidae Vigors, 1825 - sunbirds (bird)
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Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Nectariniinae (Subfamily) Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 282. [implicit]
TypeNectarinia (Genus) Illiger, 1811

Variants

Different rankNectariniinae (Subfamily)
Different rankNectariniini (Tribe)

Synonyms

IncludingDicaeidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1853
IncludingPromeropidae (Family) Vigors, 1825

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namehoningzuigers Ref: C.M. Perrins (ed.), 1991 (1990)
honingvogels

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namesunbirds Ref: E.C. Dickinson (ed.), 2003: 703.
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