Tanysiptera

Paradise kingfishers
Brown-headed paradise kingfisher
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Coraciiformes
Family:	Alcedinidae
Subfamily:	Halcyoninae
Genus:	Tanysiptera Vigors, 1825
Species
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The paradise kingfishers (genus Tanysiptera) are a group of tree kingfishers found in Australasia.

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

There are nine species:

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