Alcedo
| Alcedo | |
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| Madagascar kingfisher | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Alcedinidae |
| Genus: | Alcedo Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | |
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Alcedo is a genus of birds in the family Alcedinidae.
It contains the following species:
- Blyth's kingfisher (Alcedo hercules)
- Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
- Half-collared kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata)
- Shining-blue kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys)
- Blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting)
- Azure kingfisher (Alcedo azurea)
- Bismarck kingfisher (Alcedo websteri)
- Blue-banded kingfisher (Alcedo euryzona)
- Cerulean kingfisher (Alcedo coerulescens)
- Little kingfisher (Alcedo pusilla)
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