Ispidina: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Genus
- Ispidina
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Ispidina
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ispidina
Ispidina is a genus of small insectivorous African river kingfishers.
The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848 with the African pygmy kingfisher (Ispidina picta) as the type species. The genus is the sister group to the genus Corythornis containing four small African kingfishers.
...Ispidina in languages:
- Bokmål
- Pygméisfugler
- English
- African Dwarf and Pygmy Kingfishers
- Finnish
- kääpiökalastajat
- Japanese
- ヒメショウビン属
- Russian
- Крошечные зимородки
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