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African Dwarf and Pygmy Kingfishers
Ispidina
Ispidina is a genus of small insectivorous African river kingfishers. The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848. The type species is the African pygmy kingfisher (Ispidina picta). The genus Ispidina is the sister group to the genus Corythornis containing four small African kingfishers.
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144335.