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Todiramphus
Sign in to saveTodiramphus is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae that are endemic to the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and many islands in the South Pacific.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCoraciiformes
- FamilyAlcedinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 179
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Collections
- ANWC, DMNH
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia
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Todiramphus is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae that are endemic to the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and many islands in the South Pacific.
==Taxonomy== The genus was introduced by the French surgeon and naturalist René Lesson in 1827. The name is often spelt Todirhamphus (with rh), but Todiramphus is the original valid spelling. The name literally means "tody-bill"; tody is a relative of the kingfishers with a similar slender long bill, and the Greek '' () means "beak" or "bill".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Todiramphus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.