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Halcyoninae 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 692680

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
  Synonym(s): Dacelonidae
 
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2022   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderCoraciiformes  – Motmots, Bee-eaters, Todies, Kingfishers, Rollers, martins-pêcheurs  
                            FamilyAlcedinidae  – Kingfishers  
                               SubfamilyHalcyoninae   
    Direct Children:  
                                  GenusActenoides Bonaparte, 1850  
                                  GenusCaridonax Cabanis & Heine, 1860  
                                  GenusCittura Kaup, 1848  
                                  GenusClytoceyx Sharpe, 1880  
                                  GenusDacelo Leach, 1815  
                                  GenusHalcyon Swainson, 1821 – Blue Kingfishers 
                                  GenusLacedo Reichenbach, 1851  
                                  GenusMelidora R. Lesson, 1830  
                                  GenusPelargopsis Gloger, 1841  
                                  GenusTanysiptera Vigors, 1825  
                                  GenusTodiramphus R. Lesson, 1827  
       

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  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2021.09.25, website (version 25-Sep-21)  
  Acquired: 2021   
  Notes: 'Zoonomen Nomenclatural data' maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Halcyoninae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Dickinson, Edward C., ed.   
  Publication Date: 2003   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 3rd edition   
  Page(s): 1039   
  Publisher: Princeton University Press   
  Publication Place: Princeton, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-691-11701-2   
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  Reference for: Halcyoninae   
       

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