Paradise kingfisher

The paradise kingfishers (genus Tanysiptera) are a group of tree kingfishers endemic to New Guinea — with the exception of two species also present in the Moluccas and Queensland.

Paradise kingfisher
Brown-headed paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera danae)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Halcyoninae
Genus: Tanysiptera
Vigors, 1825
Type species
Alcedo dea
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

see list

Phylogeny
Tanysiptera

Buff-breasted paradise kingfisher

Black-capped paradise kingfisher

Red-breasted paradise kingfisher

Brown-headed paradise kingfisher

Little paradise kingfisher

Common paradise kingfisher

Biak paradise kingfisher

Numfor paradise kingfisher

Cladogram based on Andersen et al. (2017). The Kofiau paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera ellioti) was not included in the study.

The genus was erected by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825. The type species is the common paradise kingfisher. The name Tanysiptera is from classical Greek tanusipteros meaning "long-feathered". The birds in the genus have distinctive long tail streamers.

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