Poole, Karen E.
Syma
Sign in to saveSyma is a genus of tree kingfishers in the family Alcedinidae that are resident in New Guinea and northeast Australia.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 27
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Collections
- ANWC, CLO, NHMUK, NMV, AM, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea
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Syma is a genus of tree kingfishers in the family Alcedinidae that are resident in New Guinea and northeast Australia.
The genus was introduced by the French surgeon and naturalist René Lesson in 1827. Syma was the name of a sea nymph in Greek mythology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Syma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.