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Megaceryle
Sign in to saveMegaceryle is a genus of very large kingfishers. They have a wide distribution in the Americas, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Species
Belted Kingfisher
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCoraciiformes
- FamilyAlcedinidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations83,324
Observations recorded7,667,185
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 88
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Collections
- TCWC, UF, UBCBBM, TM
- Recorded in
- United States, Guyana, Mexico, South Africa
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Megaceryle is a genus of very large kingfishers. They have a wide distribution in the Americas, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
The genus was erected by German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848. The type species is a subspecies of the crested kingfisher, Megaceryle lugubris guttulata. Megaceryle is from the Ancient Greek megas, "great", and the existing genus Ceryle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megaceryle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.