| Alcedo | |
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| File:Madagascar kingfisher.jpg | |
| Madagascar Kingfisher | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Alcedinidae |
| Genus: | Alcedo Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | |
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Alcedo is a genus of birds in the Alcedinidae family.
It contains the following species:
- Blyth's Kingfisher (Alcedo hercules)
- Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
- Half-collared Kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata)
- Shining Blue Kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys)
- Blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting)
- Azure Kingfisher (Alcedo azurea)
- Bismarck Kingfisher (Alcedo websteri)
- Blue-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo euryzona)
- Indigo-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo cyanopectus)
- Silvery Kingfisher (Alcedo argentata)
- São Tomé Kingfisher (Alcedo thomensis)
- Príncipe Kingfisher (Alcedo nais)
- Cerulean Kingfisher (Alcedo coerulescens)
- Little Kingfisher (Alcedo pusilla)
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