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African River Kingfishers
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African River Kingfishers

Corythornis

Corythornis is a genus of small African river kingfishers.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Malachite Kingfisher

speciesCorythornis cristatus

Malagasy Kingfisher

speciesCorythornis vintsioides

Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher

speciesCorythornis madagascariensis

White-bellied Kingfisher

speciesCorythornis leucogaster

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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 144334.