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Apaloderma
Sign in to saveApaloderma is a genus of birds in the family Trogonidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderTrogoniformes
- FamilyTrogonidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Trogonidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM, ANSP
- Recorded in
- Uganda, Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania
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- taxon name
- Apaloderma
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- Category:Apaloderma
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Apaloderma is a genus of birds in the family Trogonidae.
The name is a compound word composed of two Greek words: hapalos, meaning "delicate"and derma, meaning "skin". Established by William Swainson in 1833, the genus contains the following species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || Apaloderma narina || Narina trogon || Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, and east Africa to eastern and southern South Africa |- | || Apaloderma aequatoriale || Bare-cheeked trogon || Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria |- |120px || Apaloderma vittatum || Bar-tailed trogon || Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia |- |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apaloderma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.